Cognizant Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial steps, I ended up in a multi-round interview where the questions drilled into how frameworks and core Java/Spring features work. I was asked what Spring Boot annotations are commonly used for and why, and I had to explain my understanding clearly rather than just naming them.

They also pushed hard on runtime behavior and software design fundamentals. I got questions about how I handle exceptions in code and whether I’d created threads in my own projects, along with what the role of the thread would be. On top of that, I was asked about core OOP and programming topics, plus