Cognizant GENC Interview Experience (On-Campus)

Cognizant came to our campus for the job profile of GENC on 1st September 2021. Earlier it had come for the GENC NEXT profile but that required more coding. I would now like to list down the following step-by-step procedure as it happened.

• The form fill-up was done through the Superset portal. We had to create our profile on Superset-with all our 10th and 12th education details, technical skillset, professional or any kind of certifications, and our resume. Aadhar Card was also needed for identity verification. Superset provided us with a unique identity number or the Superset ID.
• The first round i.e. the Aptitude test was scheduled on the 4th of September of 2021 on AMCAT. The test pattern consisted of 3 sections :
  • Quantitative Aptitude ( 25 questions for 35 minutes)
  • Verbal Ability (20 questions for 20 minutes)
  • Logical Ability ( 35 questions for 45 minutes)
• On the 9th of September we were informed about the shortlist from the aptitude round and told that the interview will be scheduled.
• The technical interview or the second round was scheduled for me on the 21st September. The interviewer was very friendly and he asked me to explain my projects first and then he counters questioned the technical stacks.
• He asked some of the standard interview questions from C++ and Python, asked me to write a very simple code (printing prime numbers divisible by 6), and solve two aptitude questions. The interview was taken on the Superset platform and it ended on a positive note.
• The last round or the HR round was scheduled on 28th September, but that was just a document verification round where our 10th mark sheet and Aadhar Card were reverified manually.

I was positive about the interview and so, on 6th October 2021, I got to know that Cognizant has offered me the first job of my career. I would suggest that practicing aptitude daily and having basic coding knowledge would be sufficient to crack the GENC profile of Cognizant.