CTS | Cognizant Interview Experience ( On Campus )

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 Hello Readers, Today I want to share my interview experience with all of you. Hope it will help you.


About CTS : 


Cognizant is an American multinational product led digital corporation that provides digital products, digital IT services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations services. It sells digital products on cloud based data engineering, model based testing tool, process automation tool RPA.


My Experience : 


CTS came to our college on 1st,2nd October 2019.


It consists of basically 3 rounds:


1) Aptitude Test

2) Technical Round

3) HR Round


The first round was an online test.


Round 1 : 


Aptitude Test: The test is conducted by Merit Trac. The pattern remained the same from the previous year. Let us get into the details.

Reasoning-30 Questions to be solved in 30 minutes

Verbal-25 Questions to be solved in 30 minutes

No Negative marking


Topics covered -Reasoning : (Expected Cut-off 15 to 17 Marks) 

  1. Data Interpretation- 4-5 Questions 
  2. Visual Reasoning- 4-5 Questions 
  3. Data sufficiency- 3-4 Questions 
  4. Logical Reasoning- 4-5 Questions 
  5. Syllogism- 3-4 Questions 
  6. Coding and Decoding- 3-4 Questions 
  7. Critical Reasoning- 3-4 Questions


Topics Covered - Verbal : (Expected Cut-off 13 to 15 Marks) 

  1. Reading Comprehension- 10-12 Questions 
  2. Para jumble- 6-8 Questions 
  3. Sentence Correction 6-8 Questions


Round 2 : 


Technical Round: This round is only to check your confidence and your little bit of technical skill.


Me: May I come in sir?

Interviewer: Yes


Interviewer: How are you?

Me: Fine sir


Interviewer: Tell me something about yourself

Me: Told name, education, family background, hobbies, short term goals, role model.


Interviewer: Tell me about your academic projects?

Me: told about 3 projects


Interviewer: What is the 555 timer and how will it work?

Me: told by the diagrammatic explanation


Interviewer: Draw the circuit of this project?

Me: drawn and gave the explanation


Interviewer: According to your project, what is the sensing element when the phone charge is a phone and how it reacts? (Project: Mobile phone charger)

Me: told by a diagrammatic explanation


Interviewer: What is a diode? What is the symbol of the diode?

Me: told


Interviewer: Explain the working of the diode? When it is in FB and RB?

Me: told by a diagrammatic explanation


Interviewer: Why the breakdowns occur? Explain the various breakdowns of diode?

Me: told by a diagrammatic explanation


Interviewer: Explain the various types of diode?

Me: told by diagrammatic explanation(about varactor, Schottky, tunnel diode)


Interviewer: What is the difference between Analog and Digital communications?

Me: told


Interviewer: Tell me about Analog communication?

Me: told


Interviewer: Types of Analog communication brief with examples?

Me: told


Interviewer: What is the difference between AM & FM? Which is more preferable? Why?

Me: told difference and individual advantages


Interviewer: Which has better SNR in AM & FM? Why?

Me: told


Interviewer: How do you rate yourself in C programming on a scale of 1 to 10?

Me: rated as 8 and gave an explanation


Interviewer: What are the concepts in C?

Me: told about basics, arrays, functions, strings, pointers, structures, unions

 

Interviewer: Do you know about C, DS, DBMS, Java?


Me: told that I know C, DBMS, Core Java


Interviewer: Write a program in C using functions and pointers to add 2 numbers and return value? 

Me: writing the program(but with 1 error and he corrected it)


Interviewer: Do you have any questions for me?

Me: asked 2 questions about their way of handling projects and assignments


Interviewer: Ok fine, that's it from my side.

Me: Thank you


Round 3 : 


HR Round:

Interviewer: How are you?

Me: Fine sir


Interviewer: How was the day up to now?

Me: Fantastic and wonderful


Interviewer: Why ECE to IT Industry?

Me: A project which inspired me in my 2nd year lead to the exploration in embedded systems and C drove me to the IT industry


Interviewer: What are your hobbies?

Me: told


Interviewer: Tell me anything which is not in the resume?

Me: told about various paper presentations and other activities


Interviewer: What are your strengths?

Me: told with few of my experiences in life


Interviewer: What are your weaknesses?

Me: convinced him with a joke


Interviewer: Do you know the C programming language?

Me: Yes


Interviewer: How do you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10?

Me: Rated as 8 and gave an explanation


Interviewer: Why CTS?

Me: The USP is a happy job, rewarding for performance. Also explained with some of my projects.


Interviewer: Give me one reason why to choose you for this CTS job?

Me: Told how my thoughts and projects are matching with the requirements of the job and company.


Interviewer: What places did you travel outside the state and India?

Me: told few tours(explained about organization skills)


Interviewer: As the IT companies are 24x7, Would you like to overwork the projects at the required times?

Me: Yes sir



Interviewer: Can you relocate anywhere?

Me: Yes sir


Interviewer: Can you work in graveyard shifts?

Me: Yes sir


Interviewer: Alright Gana, that's it from my side.

Me: Thank you, sir, it was really good to talk to you


I had a TR+HR interview for 40 minutes and I was facing questions like bullets. From intricate details of my Resume to giving different situations, he asked me everything. 


One thing I noticed, you need to spontaneous and quick as well as have confidence.

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