Cognizant Business Analyst interview experience

Since I was going in through college placements as a fresher, I could feel they were looking for basic knowledge across the language and topics mentioned in my resume.

In the technical stage, the questions weren’t just theoretical. I was expected to handle coding-like prompts and also discuss core fundamentals. I remember being asked to write solutions around problems such as finding repeating characters in a string and checking whether a string was a palindrome. When SQL came up, I had to execute or reason about query logic like subqueries and write queries directly, and there were