Programme 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 Programme Analyst according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
Drug test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
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I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (New York, NY) in May 2014
Interview
first had a HR call, after a week hiring manager called and took interview then received offer in 2 weeks. HR asked some basic questions like your goals, strengths, weakness. Choose a topic and speak for 2mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hiring manager asked me some basic questions as i was a fresher and related to networking. He asked me different network topologies and SQL commands. What is your project? what are the technologies you used in the project.
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