Cognizant Software Engineer interview experience

First came a communication and aptitude-style screening, then I moved into rounds that mixed coding with SQL-style questions and a small frontend task. The coding parts leaned on arrays and strings, and I also had to deal with SQL queries plus some basic frontend work.

What made it feel like a true sequence was how the later segments stayed aligned to fundamentals: after the coding round, I ended up in general technical conversations that stayed on basic OOPs, SQL, and frontend. The whole thing didn’t feel like trick questions so much as covering the core of what I already knew.

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