CTS On Campus Freshers
- Name: Meenakshi Pillai
- Branch: ECE
- College: BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
- Type of Interview: On-Campus (3.38 LPA)
Student Interview
Two months back the placement cell of our college notified all the final year students that Cognizant will be conducting a recruitment drive in our college soon. Immediately, everyone applied for it. But due to the eligibility criteria of minimum 60% in 10th, 12th, and graduation and no existing backlogs only a few students were eligible for the drive. Fortunately, I was one of those few students. The CTS selection process had 3rounds;
- Written Test
- Technical Interview
- HR Interview
Round 1- Written Test
MeritTrac conducted the written test. The test contained 3 sections.
Sections |
Number of Questions |
Time Duration |
Syllabus |
Verbal Ability |
25 |
25 minutes |
Synonyms, antonyms, Para-jumbles, comprehension, sentence correction, grammar etc. |
Quantitative Ability |
16 |
16 minutes |
Number system, Profit, and loss, percentage, time and work, speed and distance, etc. |
Reasoning Ability |
14 |
14 minutes |
Coding and decoding, arrangements, blood relations, data sufficiency, syllogism, etc. |
Overall the difficulty level of the test was moderate, and since I already practiced such questions on PrepInsta, so, I was able to solve most of the problems. Luckily, I cleared the cut-off and was shortlisted for technical interview.
Round 2-Technical Interview
As soon as I entered the room, the interviewer asked me to sit and immediately started asking technical questions. I got nervous, but still, I tried to be calm and composed. Mainly, he was testing my confidence level. And luckily, I was able to maintain that confidence. Then he asked me to introduce myself and eventually we had a friendly conversation.
- Which was your favorite subject in engineering?
- You are an ECE student why do you want to work in IT domain?
- What do you know about Cognizant?
- Tell me something about your Project.
- What is a pointer?
- Distinguish between C++ and JAVA.
- What are objects?
The technical interview was straightforward as fundamental questions were only asked. I was able to answer all the questions and so was shortlisted for the HR round.
Round 3-HR Interview
The HR primarily evaluated my communication skills and confidence by asking some general question related to my personal life.
- Tell me something about yourself.
- Why do you want to join Cognizant?
- Do you want to pursue higher education?
- What are your hobbies?
- Suppose you win a lottery of Rs. 10 Lakh, how are you going to spend it?
- What are your expectations from this job?
At last, the HR informed me about night shifts, relocation, and other conditions to which I agreed. He asked me if I had any questions. I asked him to give me a feedback about my interview. He said you need work on your communication skills and rest all is great. I thanked him and left.
A week later, results were declared and fortunately, I reserved my seat at Cognizant, in short, I was selected.
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