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      Programmer Analyst Trainee (PAT) Interview

      11 Feb 2022
      Anonymous employee
      New Delhi
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (New Delhi) in Nov 2021

      Interview

      I had 2 interview round. Technical and HR. In both interviews, I had to give my intro. In technical I had to solve some basic problem in a GUI just like we have in hackerrank which the interviewer gave me f2f. In HR he did document verification.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Swapping 2 numbers without using the third variable.
      1 Answer

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      Programmer Analyst Trainee (PAT) Interview

      30 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Nov 2025

      Interview

      The Interview was average only. Questions were mainly on :- i)OOPS ii)Coding(Mainly arrays and Strings but few were asked Leetcode Hard) iii)Questions based on Resume iv) Aptitude questions v) Behavioural Questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The interview mainly revolved around OOPS concepts and questions on resume. Then few coding questions and few puzzles and aptitude.
      Answer question

      Programmer Analyst Trainee (PAT) Interview

      12 Sept 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      My interview was conducted via superset platform. Interviewer was mainly focused on programming fundamentals and basic questions from java programming. Two coding questions were given (Binary Search implementation, factorial of a number) and few branch related questions and the interview ended with some basic aptitude questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Binary search Implementation 2. Fcatorial of a number
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      Programmer Analyst Trainee (PAT) Interview

      4 Sept 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Calcutta
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta)

      Interview

      Seamless experience with recruiters 3 rounds Screening (DSA + JS + HTML+ CSS), Interview (JAVA, OOPS, Handson ] then HR round Things took around 1 month. Interview round went for more than 1 hour in my case and HR round was roughly 20 minutes with standard questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Medium Java Questions, A scenario based problem solving to test knowledge of OOPS and SQL
      Answer question

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