Cognizant Business Analyst interview experience

After the initial recruiter stage, I had technical conversations where the focus stayed on Java fundamentals and core SQL. The questions started with a quick self-introduction and then shifted into Java topics like inheritance (including what it means and how to express it with code), plus Java concepts around exceptions, OOP pillars, and method overloading vs overriding.

From there it moved into hands-on-ish details: I had to write a small Java snippet that transformed a string in a specific way, and I was asked to compare operators and methods like == versus .equals(). On the SQL side, I