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 69.3% 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 online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Nov 2018
Interview
First, they take written online test through amcat after that the shortlisted student get a hall ticket for an interview. The interview is conducted in two rounds first is a technical interview in the technical interview they ask question-related to computer science like any of the programming languages of your choice the questions are basic of programming like oops concept and they may ask the question-related to DBMS, data structure etc after that the hr interview is conducted for shortlisted students where they ask question-related to your family background like every hr interview. So it is not hard to crack but you need to work little hard to get the job like to qualify the written test which is a moderate question paper and need to work there to qualify the exam .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1-difference between DBMS and RDBMS ?
2- sql joins
3-primary vs unique key
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