Cognizant Software Engineer interview experience

In the first technical stage, they asked more basic Java questions and it felt easier than what came next. But then I hit the deeper level round where the difficulty ramped up fast—they asked concepts very deeply, not just to see if I knew terminology, but to understand how I’d reason through them.

After that, I had another technical discussion centered on my project work. I talked through what I built, and they followed up with general concept checks tied to what was in my background. There was also a bit of clarity about my overall thinking rather than pure syntax—still technical, but