Cognizant·Business Analyst

Cognizant Business Analyst interview experience

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PunePosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Cognizant process felt like a step-by-step narrowing down: aptitude and technical testing first, then interviews that went deeper into fundamentals.

Early on, I got questions that leaned heavily toward Java and SQL, where they expected the basic logic of coding and simple reasoning behind programs. After completing the assessment, everything was checked and I was shortlisted for the interview.

In the interview rounds, I kept getting pulled back to core topics. My resume came up, and I had to explain projects and how I handled them, but they also asked direct technical questions around OOPs and SQL concepts—things like joins and how specific clauses work. I even had moments where they gave a database table and asked me to write a query on

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