Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 454 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 454 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 16%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Background check: 11%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 5%
Phone interview: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Dec 2013
Interview
I have applied through Amcat in Dec,2013
1st round is aptitude and few technical MCQs which was held in my college.
2nd round is Technical and it is face to face in CTS, Hyderabad, 2013
3rd round is HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was almost 45mins of Technical Round for me. Interviewer mainly observes confidence levels.
1. write a C program to Armstrong Number
2. Pointers concept in c and c++
3. Few SQl queries
4. Normalization in DBMS
5. Concepts of Operating Systems
6. Concepts in Networking
7. About my academics and latest news about cognizant
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