Candidate Information:
This is my experience about Digital Nurture Program of Cognizant for C# cluster which was conducted on campus .
Recruitment Process Overview:-
- Communication Round
- Qualifier -Technical Assessment
- Deep Skilling Assessment
- Technical Interview(offline)
Round 1: Communication Round
- Mode: Virtual
- Focus: English , Fluency, Grammar.
After a week I was shortlisted for Qualifier-Technical Assessment.
Round 2: Qualifier-Technical Assessment
Duration: 120 minutes
It consisted of 2 coding questions which needs to be solved using c# only , 2 sql , 1 web development (html , css , js ) questions .
I am very much familiar with C++. But it had only options for c#. So I had no choice for going for it at the end.
Even solving 2-3 questions in this round will shortlist you further for the deep skilling phase.
After 15 days , I got mail that I was shortlisted for Deep skilling phase..
Round 3: Deep Skilling Round
During the Deep Skilling program, we were provided with a comprehensive handbook and assigned module-wise assignments to be submitted through GitHub. Each participant was assigned a Point of Contact (POC) for weekend discussions and progress tracking.
The program consisted of 8 modules, covering:
- Design Patterns
- Advanced SQL
- NUnit
- Moq
- EF Core
- ASP.NET
- React.js
- Git and GitHub
- Microservices and Docker
We attended weekly classes for each module, and our attendance and progress were tracked via Cognizant’s K-Point platform.
After 2.5 months we were assigned to take Deep Skilling Assessment through Metll browser.
Type-MCQ's
Duration-100 minutes
After 15 days I was shortlisted for the Technical Interview.
Round 4: Technical Interview
Everyone was eligible for GenC Next Interviews from the deep skilling assessment.
Duration-35-45 mins
Mode-Physical
Interviewers-2(1 Present in Person ,1 joins through superset platform)
Candidates were instructed to report at 8:30 AM for the interviews. Prior to the interview day, we were asked to get our documents verified by Cognizant’s Talent Acquisition Team .The interview was recorded in Superset .
I went Infront of the panel I was nervous a bit but he didn't even ask me to introduce myself or handover the resume.
Questions:-
- What is Compile time polymorphism (Answered)
- Tell me about your recent Project .(I used React in my Project and React was also present in our deep skilling phase )
- Rate yourself in React( I said 3 out of 5)
- How do you pass Data in React? ( Answered)
- How do you pass data from child to parent component? (Answered)
- What is Virtual DOM in React?(Answered)
- What are Hooks in react ?(Answered)
- What is use State?(Answered)
- What is use Context?
- Then he moved to OOPs
- What is delegation?
- What is Multiple Inheritance? Does C# Support it? ( Answered)
- Can you explain the Diamond problem?
- What is an interface?(Answered)
- What is Multi level Inheritance? ( Answered)
- Then he asked me to rate myself in C#.(I said a 3 out of 5)
- Asked me to print my name with each character and it's index .( Answered)
- Reverse an Array using functions ( Answered)
- What is system.linq library ?
- Then he asked me few Asp.NET Questions but i could barely answer and before that i told him I just started it so i don't have much knowledge in it.
- Then he asked me to rate myself in SQL and DBMS.( I rated 3 out of 5)
- What are triggers?(Answered)
- Code of Trigger( Couldn't answer before proceeding to the code i specified him I didn't use trigger till now)
- What are views in sql? ( Answered)
- Then he gave me two tables asked me to join them and find out the 2nd max marks in them.( I did 75-80% perfectly and messed up in the last part)
- What is a primary key ? What is an Unique key ? Difference between them ( Answered)
- What is Normalisation? What are Normal forms ( Answered)
- Can a Table have more than 1 foreign keys? ( Answered)
- Then he asked me how do you upload a project in Github ? Tell me each and every command ( Answered)
- Command of Pushing a code into github? ( Answered) {I fumbled too)
- What is singleton pattern ? What is Factory pattern? ( I told them i forgot about it couldn't recall but it was from Design pattern Chapter
- Do you have any expertise in cloud? (No)
- Then he asked me Okay I am done now do you have any questions for me?
- I asked how is life at cognizant?
- How can i improve myself in interviews? ( He was happy to answer it)
I thanked both the interviewers and went out to the lobby after 2hrs i received the interview completion mail and i was permitted to leave the lobby.
Results
Selected for GenC Next Role. After 1 month I got confirmation from College TnP department .From nearly 350 students in interviews they selected 111 students , nearly 25 students were selected for GenC Next Role and rest were selected for GenC Role.
Post-Interview Reflections
- If you don’t know the answer to a question, it’s better to politely admit it and move on rather than trying to guess or over-explain.
- Avoid irritating or interrupting the interviewer; stay calm and respectful throughout the discussion.
- Rate your performance realistically — honest self-evaluation helps identify areas for improvement and future preparation.