The interview had multiple stages and it was a typical process with 2 technical sessions, one with Cognizant employees and another with client representatives. The difficulty was medium with really generic questions but also typical ones.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- What is CI/CD?
- What is the difference between continuous delivery and continuous deployment?
- What is a block structure in ansible?
- What is the difference between a Kubernetes statefulset and a deployment?
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jun 2017
Interview
Aptitude test - it was bit easy , but it took more than a hour to complete
Technical round - lots of technical questions
HR round - they are concentrating on our fluency in English
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Austin, TX) in Sep 2021
Interview
They basically asked me what tools are used and I told them the tools I worked with. They asked some realtime issues like how would I upgrade Kubernetes version without any down time and I told them. I gave them proper explanation but haven't heard back from them
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You would basically expect these in any DevOps engineer interview. Can google and get them but prepare with your own story and what you did in the past project.