Cognizant Software Engineer Interview Experience
ResultRejected
Timespan2 weeks
DifficultyMedium
Rounds4
Interview process
I was weak on the API part so all else went well except that.
Be good at RAG and AI agentic and AI systems. Also be good in web development (APIs, AWS deployment)
Interview rounds · 4
- 1
Recruiter screen
- Q1. Resume based screening
- 2
Online assessment
- Q1. DSA question
- Q2. React/angular coding question
- Q3. Prompt engineering question
- 3
Technical round
- Q1. Given an API in json format, fetch the columns from it.
Q2. What is prompt engineering?
Follow-up questions- What different types are there?
- Q3. RAG questions
- 4
Final / onsite round
- Q1. Behavioural questions
Tips from the candidate
Prepare more depth in RAG and AI systems.
Company culture
Good. The interviewing company was so good that they brought water for me in the middle of meeting. They behaved very well.