Cognizant Interview Experience For GENC (On-Campus) 2022

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. An 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)

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.

Initially, we were required to fill up the form 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. An Aadhar Card was also needed for identity verification. Superset provided us with a unique identity number or the Superset ID.

Round 1

The initial part of shortlisting involved an aptitude test.

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: It had 25 questions which were to be solved in 35 minutes.
• Verbal Ability: It had 20 questions which were to be solved in 20 minutes.
• Logical Ability: It had 35 questions which were to be solved in 45 minutes.

On the 9th of September, we were informed about the shortlist from the aptitude round and told that the interview would be scheduled soon.

Round 2

The technical interview or the second round was scheduled for the 21st of September.

The interviewer was very friendly and the interview began with the interviewer asking me to explain my projects.

This was followed by certain technical questions on stacks and their working.

He asked some of the standard interview questions from Java and Python, Java OOP concepts, and solved two aptitude questions. Asked about final year project.

I was asked to write a simple code:

• Check if an even or odd

I wrote the following code:

C++

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

string check(int n) {

    if(n%2==1) cout << "Number is odd";
    else cout << "Number is even";
    return 0;
}

The interview was taken on the Superset platform and it ended on a positive note.

Round 3

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.