Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 267 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 Software Engineer according to 267 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 18%
Phone interview: 12%
Background check: 12%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Mysore) in Oct 2019
Interview
The company had three rounds.First round was aptitude which was online with usual section of aptitude and programming when I took this test most of the questions were repeated from amcat and I did well in it and when it comes to programming.basic knowledge of array of pointer and some operation like addition of array of pointer and multiplication is required to answer the questions.i got shortlisted for interview process where I had 2 rounds -technical and HR. I was 13th person at the interview process.first 10 person came out of interview saying that questions where tough they asked to write assembly language code. I was shocked.when I went to one of the panel for technical interview the interviewer asked me to be comfort, don't worry don't get tensed ,I was happy by his words,he started to ask some common questions like tell me about our self.after that he went through my resume and asked me to write fragment of code applying oops concept to the code I written in the project using PHP,some how I wrote but he didn't get convinced.after he asked to write any machine learning algorithm,so I said I don't know but I can explain how knn algorithm works .then he asked some java concept and lastly he asked strength and weaknesses,that is the end of my technical interview.i got rejected in technical interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jun 2026
Interview
only one round of technical interview for senior position, and hr execution was not proper, they didn;t connect when needed and no proper negotiation of salary either since shortlisting for interview
The interview was primarily technical, concentrating on C#, .NET, SQL, and API concepts. Questions tested understanding of core principles and practical application. The process was straightforward, professional, and focused on technical depth.
I applied online and got a calll back, had 4 rounds in total. first was a behavioral phone call just casual talks about your skills and when can you start working and general questions, then two coding rounds in hackerrank - was asked to code in java although the job was for python and finally HR.