Programmer Analyst Trainee 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 89% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programmer Analyst Trainee roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 328 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 Programmer Analyst Trainee according to 328 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Skills test: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 15%
Personality test: 12%
Background check: 7%
Presentation: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Drug test: 2%
Phone interview: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Sep 2016
Interview
There were total 3 rounds. First was Aptitude test then technical interview and HR round. Whereas technical interview also had some HR and logical questions. Aptitude test covered mainly 3 sections 1) Quantitative 2) Logical 3) English. For quantitative you need to be bit fast.Sectional cut-off was there
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical interview covered almost all subjects of Computer Engineering and some puzzles and about final year project too. Different questions asked to me were
1) What are joins in sql?
2) What is difference between Inner join and Outer Join? Write queries for the same
3) What is IP in networking?
4) Do you know Cloud Computing? What is difference between Cloud computing and Internet?
5) What is Data Mining ? What are real life examples of Data Mining?
6) What is difference between Core JAVA and Advanced JAVA
Tip for this questions is , you must know the basics of different areas, not detailed knowledge though but you must sound Technical !
HR questions mainly involved about questions about personality and reallocation
Smooth interview process as well as it was very interesting with ample feedback at the end. I enjoyed the conversation a lot and coverted the interview and accepted the offer.
Introduction
Basic of Oops and Programming
2 Coding Questions
Reverse String and Number
Question on Java and SQL Spring Boot and Other programing related questions like hashing map vs hash table why they are used