Program Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Program Analyst according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 17%
Drug test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
IQ intelligence test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
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I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2014
Interview
The interview was on point and had good HR that were friendly.Being from mechanical engineering concentration I was not aware of the software side of the interview but had prepared the basics and concepts that are needed for the role. I was asked to write a simple program in C++ and another one was to debug a program that he gave.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected