Company interviews / Cognizant
Cognizant interview practice
1 Cognizant role has been listed on giveinterview since August 2026, 1 open now. Each one comes with an AI interview that runs the loop below: a 10-minute voice screen, then 2 rounds (coding, then behavioral). The topics that come up most are C, Data structures, GDB, IPC, Linux. 45 coding questions are known to come up in Cognizant interviews (28 easy, 15 medium, 2 hard), 9 of them in the last six months. The most common topics are Array, Two Pointers, Database, String.
The interview loop
Most common across Cognizant roles on giveinterview.
- Gate 0 · Voice screen10 min
- Gate 1 · Coding45 min
- Gate 2 · Behavioral45 min
What the interviews cover
Skills and topics, with the number of Cognizant roles that list each one.
- C1
- Data structures1
- GDB1
- IPC1
- Linux1
- Multiprocessing1
- Multithreading1
- Socket programming1
- Unix1
- Version Control1
Coding questions Cognizant asks
From public company-tagged interview question lists. Most recent and most frequent first.
- Array20
- Two Pointers10
- Database10
- String9
- Hash Table8
- Math7
- Sorting7
- Dynamic Programming6
- Divide and Conquer3
- Memoization2
- Prefix Sum2
- Binary Search2
| Question | Difficulty | Asked recently |
|---|---|---|
| Palindrome Number | Easy | Yes |
| Two Sum | Easy | Yes |
| Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters | Medium | Yes |
| Move Zeroes | Easy | Yes |
| Valid Palindrome | Easy | Yes |
| Find Total Time Spent by Each Employee | Easy | Yes |
| Rotting Oranges | Medium | Yes |
| Rank Scores | Medium | Yes |
| Find the Index of the First Occurrence in a String | Easy | Yes |
| Smallest Value of the Rearranged Number | Medium | — |
| Longest Palindromic Substring | Medium | — |
| Fibonacci Number | Easy | — |
| Second Highest Salary | Medium | — |
| Valid Anagram | Easy | — |
| Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock | Easy | — |
| Merge Sorted Array | Easy | — |
| Valid Parentheses | Easy | — |
| Subarray Sum Equals K | Medium | — |
| Median of Two Sorted Arrays | Hard | — |
| Replace Employee ID With The Unique Identifier | Easy | — |
| Article Views I | Easy | — |
| Product Sales Analysis I | Easy | — |
| Max Consecutive Ones | Easy | — |
| Combine Two Tables | Easy | — |
| Majority Element | Easy | — |
Roles
| Role | Where | Gates | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | On-site · Mumbai Metropolitan Region | 3 | Open |
Practice a Cognizant interview
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