Cognizant·Business Analyst

Cognizant Business Analyst interview experience

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IndiaPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews leaned more technical than I expected, and they moved through stages that felt very hands-on.

First, I had an online communication round, then I went into a technical sequence where Java and SQL came up, and they even gave time to discuss Spring Boot before the deeper part of the interview.

After that, I faced questions that connected to Spring and Spring Boot topics, and the Java side also included OOPs-style understanding. On the SQL side, I had to work through things like sub-queries, including being asked to execute them in a compiler-like setting. The later technical discussion also included a broader set of topics across DSA and SQL, plus AI and machine learning where the

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