Solicité el puesto en persona. Acudí a una entrevista en Cognizant (Cluj-Napoca)
Entrevista
Basic knowledge assesment of java 1.8+
Spring aop, di, mvc, transactions
, resilience (circuit breakers),
Rest APIs
Badic sql
Basic knowledge of docker/kubernetes
Solid, acid, cap
The interviewers are not that consistent, there is a good degree on personal biases based, not all the areas are covered.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Explaining basic principles of what is described above.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Cognizant (Guadalajara, Jalisco) en oct 2025
Entrevista
I did 3 rounds of interview, each of them technical, I managed to get to the client, the client were the only one who noticed that I wasn't a support engineer (I didn't apply to that position either, apparently somebody switched me in the middle of the process)
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Cognizant (Bengaluru) en oct 2025
Entrevista
The interview process included an initial HR screening followed by a technical assessment to test my Java skills. After that, I had one or two rounds of technical interviews focusing on coding, problem-solving, and frameworks like Spring Boot. Finally, there was a managerial round to discuss project experience and team collaboration.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
They asked me to explain the difference between an abstract class and an interface in Java.