I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in May 2017
Interview
I have been selected via AMCAT exam scores, I was a fresher hence the interview was as usual as it is suppose to be. There were around 800+ freshers who attended the interview, first screening was done by Group Discussion round, second round was the Technical Round and post that it was a HR round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Why did you choose Computer science
2) program in c to swap two numbers
3) program in C for star pattern
4) what is Bubble sort
5) where do you see yourself in next 5 years
6) why 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
Cognizant interviews FAQs
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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