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“It was hard. Two medium leet code in 45 minutes and you're alright. System Design needs lots of practice and quick explanations.”
“It was a long process, took ages to schedule interviews. Did not receive feedback after being rejected in the final round. ”
“The interview process was straightforward not focused on any particular tech stack mostly DSA and projects.”
“It was good overall, and in order to clear any stage of the process, one need's have a solid understanding of SQL, Statistics, and Business Case studies. ”
“The process was bizarre. During the recruiter call, they said the next interview will be behavioral. But it was pure technical. Asked lot of networking questions and system designs”
“The question was a little harder than others. I didn't prep at all so didn't perform the best but it's just slightly harder leetcode”
“It was a long and tedious process but fairly simple and predictable. Have 2 strong stories for each leadership principle is good enough prep, be able to tweak as per the principle and the story is a good add on.”
“Overall interview process is really simple and easy. hr and engineers so humble. they mostly asked about how u use ai daily basis. how to finish your task using ai. basic coding and technical questions.”
“The Process was easy, even though I am in my final year of B.Tech. I would say basics from multiple domains or tech stacks are enough to get into Cognizant for freshers.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
