I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Apr 2019
Interview
The interview process was very straight forward, with One Techno-Managerial round and One HR Round.
The reason I have given a thumbs down to the process is due to the fact that in spite of clearing the rounds CTS denied releasing the offer due to compensation. The compensation they quoted during the interview itself, I agreed to it. After 3.5 months, they came back saying that the compensation they said They could offer me was above the hiring grid and they could not get approval for it, which proves that the HR team, is not competent enough to hire anyone.
First there will be a screening round ,most probably a telephonic or video call followed by a Managerial round
Lastly a client round where you will be asked about your day to day contribution in project
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Winston-Salem, NC)
Interview
Screening from a cognizant employee via a phone/teams call, sometime involving a scenario based coding question or a tell me a time when kind of questions, then a client round interview.
Application
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Cognizant (Coimbatore)
Interview
L1 - technical
L2 - Managerial
HR
L1 is pure technical (explain project (cobol+jcl +db2+cics)
L2 - tech +mangerial
HR - general HR questions
L1 is pure technical (explain project (cobol+jcl +db2+cics)
L2 - tech +mangerial
HR - general HR questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
>> cOBOL Version conversion
>> Migrating cobol to java
>> DB2 queries