I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chandigarh) in Sep 2019
Interview
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant Consulting in May 2018.
Interview
There was one online aptitude test and two interview rounds including technical and HR round. The interviewer was very friendly and supportive. Asks about basic programming questions and final year project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of length 10000 find the max value in array the complexity should be best.
Tell me about your project draw flow chart and how did you aggregate it with the back-end.
I had on project which was live so i told him about that he was very interested in my project then he asked how did you deploy it some SQL queries and at last he said okay you can leave now.
HR:-
Tell me something about yourself.
Are you willing to relocate.
Why should i hire you
What is polymorphism.
And finally the question came do you have any question for me.
Hr asked me polymorphism because the technical interviewer had written in my resume that i'm good in tech.
So yeah overall experience was good :)
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
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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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