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Cognizant Interview Questions for Freshers 2026 (Real Questions)

Preparing for a Cognizant interview? Below are real questions collected from recent Cognizant fresher interviews — grouped by round and topic, sorted by how often they are actually asked. Updated automatically as new interview experiences come in.

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Cognizant interview process for freshers

  1. Aptitude + Communication Test
  2. Technical Interview
  3. HR Interview

Aptitude + communication assessment, then technical and HR — focus on CS basics and clarity.

Top 10 most-asked Cognizant interview questions

  1. Tell me about yourself (asked 39×)
  2. Tell me about your project (asked 13×)
  3. Relocation (asked 5×)
  4. 1 Tell me about yourself (asked 4×)
  5. 3 aptitude questions (asked 3×)
  6. 14 Location preference (asked 2×)
  7. Are you willing to relocate (asked 2×)
  8. Oops concepts (asked 2×)
  9. Hobbies (asked 2×)
  10. Shifts (asked 2×)

Cognizant other questions (121)

  • 14 Location preference
  • Normalisation
  • Why Cognizant?
  • about collections
  • does the main method overload or not
  • all sem memos including the 10th memo
  • id card
  • 2 Why IT
  • 3 which programming language did you learn
  • Recent workshop explanation
  • certificate verification
  • Any foreign language
  • Recent trends in IT
  • Explanation of any one trends
  • Biggest of three number program
  • The worst situation faced and how I overcome then lesson learned
  • Cognizant - Gen C
  • 1 I'm from EEE
  • Bluetooth
  • Taskbar
  • 6 microprocessor and its feature
  • fav sub and any other topic you wish
  • framework
  • generators and alternate
  • Road map
Show 96 more other questions
  • 11 colours of wire in electrical
  • 12 Basic hr questions
  • structure
  • It was around 31 mins
  • Today I completed my cognizant Gen C interview
  • The interview is around 30 mins
  • explaining the code
  • had applied before for CTS
  • Gen c interview attended mrng
  • I'm from EEE
  • Diff btw list tuple
  • Local variable and global variable
  • Deep copy and shallow copy
  • 11 Remove duplicate elements in the list
  • 13 Monkey patching
  • It was around 41 min interview
  • Bro I just got Cognizant
  • interview yesterday at 5 pm - 5:25 pm
  • 5 Tell me the major technologies and explain any 1 technology
  • 6 What if you are selected by Cognizant
  • I completed
  • Hello l just completed Cognizant Engineer Trainee - IT service desk interview
  • Show college ID card first
  • your college
  • 5 What is OS, server
  • About role
  • I have attended the Cognizant CIS role interview
  • In that they asked Why business persons using VPN
  • what is vpn
  • 3 Why IT, Any specific Reason
  • 4 Which hometown u belong to
  • 5 What will u change in your past
  • If the system has been slow what u will do
  • 8 What is your preferred location
  • Cognizant CIS role
  • Questions asked
  • explain about the job role
  • what you will do if your pc slows down
  • 3 how you will explain Insta gram to an 80 year old person who doesn't have any
  • knowledge about it
  • Started with my introduction
  • 2 How will cyber security play an important role in the upcoming IT sector (Coz I was
  • in a cyber security program
  • 4 What programming languages do you use
  • 7 How would you help in the growth of the company
  • It was around 30 mins interview
  • ld Card
  • 4 difference between method overloading and method overriding
  • 11 To speak on two topics as communication and time management
  • 4 Why IT instead of mechanical
  • my favourite language
  • 7 Some questions regarding CAD
  • 9 Which location you prefer
  • Cognizant interview experience (GD)
  • 1 Like the First In First Serve method who raised the hand first will start the GD and
  • then who raise the hand next will speak about their point
  • 2 After everyone completes their point then the interviewer tells everyone to discuss
  • their points about earlier they said in GD like q/a session between each interview
  • After completing the session the interviewer randomly asks some questions to some
  • students
  • 4 What are you passionate about
  • 5 Why do you choose the IT sector
  • 7 What are your favourite things to do?
  • Tell about cis role
  • 3 Why mechanical to IT switch
  • Scenario based question : how will you solve your pc if gets slow
  • 6 Tell about the movie which you saw recently
  • 7 What you think about impact of Al in IT field
  • 8 What you will do in free time
  • If you get selected your preferred location is what
  • 3 Who is your role model Why?
  • 4 what did u learn from them
  • Troubleshooting questions - like what would you do if your laptop gets slow and what
  • measures will you take if your printer and system are not working
  • About job role
  • Asked about preferable location
  • About the job role
  • 3 What's VPN? Why do businesses need vpn?
  • 4 What did you do in the last year after your graduation
  • Your location Your preferred location
  • 2 What is OS
  • 3 Who is your role model
  • If you buy a laptop what features are going to check
  • If your laptop has antivirus then what you will doo
  • 6 What is LAN VAN
  • ACID properties
  • Rollback and Limit
  • Error handling and os
  • 5 LAN and WAN difference
  • 6 RAM and ROM difference
  • Do you know anything about the role which you have applied for
  • 8 Who is your role model and Why?
  • 7 Method overloading and method overriding
  • record whether received or not
  • TR Questions
  • Hr Questions

Cognizant hr & behavioural questions (50)

  • Tell me about yourself
  • Relocation
  • 1 Tell me about yourself
  • Are you willing to relocate
  • Hobbies
  • Shifts
  • Are you flexible with night/rotational shifts?
  • Are you comfortable with relocation
  • 10 Any questions
  • 15 any questions
  • willing to relocate
  • day shift or night shift
  • 15 Shift timings
  • If you are selected in Cognizant what should you do now and after 5 years
  • 4 What are the qualities that a team leader has?
  • 7 Any questions The above questions are asked to me that's all the interview that
  • 2 Tell me about yourself
  • 7 night shifts comfortable
  • 8 Relocation other than any 3 mentioned in the role
  • Are u ready to relocate
  • Rotational shift
  • are you okay with rotational shifts
  • are you okay with the relocation
  • 5 Willing to relocate ??
  • 6 Comfortable to work in day and night shifts
Show 25 more hr & behavioural questions
  • 8 Willing to learn new and growing technologies
  • Any questions you would like to ask us
  • what is ur weaknesses
  • Are you ok for night shifts
  • Are you ready for relocation s
  • Brief introduction with weakness and strong ness
  • Is there any worst situation in your family or neighbour in corona pandemic
  • 6 What do you know about cognizant
  • 6 Why do you want to join cognizant
  • 4 Rate yourself in system troubleshooting
  • 10 Are you willing to work if you get non preferred location
  • 11 Are you willing to work in rotational shift
  • 12 Do you have any questions for me
  • Shift based questions
  • 2 Why do you want to be in the IT field
  • 6 Comfortable in night shifts
  • Are willing to relocate
  • Are you flexible with any shifts
  • 9 Why do you want join Cognizant
  • 10 Do you have any questions
  • Strength and weakness
  • Are you ready to relocate
  • 4 Are you comfortable with any shifts
  • Id proof and introduce yourself
  • 8 Write a query for creating employee table And then she asked to update it with salary

Cognizant technical & cs core questions (28)

  • Oops concepts
  • OOP concepts (encapsulation, abstraction)
  • ACID properties in DBMS
  • SQL — GROUP BY and HAVING
  • Pointers basics in C
  • Difference between Java and Python
  • Do we need to create an object for the static method
  • Pointer & Array
  • 13 what is python
  • oops and all definition
  • Diff btw array and list
  • Pickling in python
  • Oops in python
  • Inheritance
  • 9 Can an empty class be created in Python
  • As you are a mechanical engineer why are you choosing this IT?
  • 3 What is a Database
  • 6 difference between primary key and unique key
  • 10 Oops Concepts
  • 5 Te II me that you know everything about python (in introduction i said that python is
  • Encapsulation and Polymorphism
  • How Memory management is happened in C++
  • Some pseudo codes in C++ Lang
  • 2 Tell me pointers in C
  • 3 Given an array and said to find the largest element in the array
Show 3 more technical & cs core questions
  • Abstraction and encapsulation
  • 6 What is DBMS
  • 3 Simple SQL queries 2

Cognizant aptitude & puzzles questions (8)

  • 3 aptitude questions
  • two aptitude questions on speed distance and time
  • 3 aptitude ques
  • 3 basic Aptitude questions
  • Aptitude 3 questions
  • 10 Aptitude question on percentage
  • Four aptitude questions on puzzles
  • 12 aptitude based question

Cognizant coding & dsa questions (7)

  • Swap two numbers without a temporary variable
  • write a program to swap two numbers with and without using a third variable
  • 5 Palindrome and Fibonacci series program
  • Overloading and overriding definitions and writing code for it with output and
  • 12 Fibonacci series logic
  • 9 Write the logic to reverse an array
  • 4 Java program to find the occurrence of an character in a string

Cognizant projects & resume questions (6)

  • Tell me about your project
  • Project and tech stack
  • Recent internship
  • 3 Explain your role in major and minor project
  • 1 Tell me about your project and your role in the project
  • 2 Types of Machine Learning and explain in detail ( My project was on ML)

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Questions are aggregated from interview experiences shared by freshers who recently interviewed at Cognizant. Frequency counts show how many separate candidates reported the question. This page updates automatically.