I applied through college or university. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in May 2019
Interview
I applied through on-campus recruitment as CTS Came in our clg- UEM Kolkata, and recruited 220 students to total for the job post Program Analyst. First, they took an exam which was conducted by aspiring minds which had an aptitude test with reasoning and 7 automata fix questions, you need to attend a minimum of 4 automata fix questions to get selected for interview. Automata fix questions are like Dry run questions, you will need to correct some portion of the code it's easy if you practice. Aptitude and Reasoning are also easy not that hard, just practice aptitude. And the best part is that you can give this exam from your home with a webcam. If you pass this test direct tech interview and HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me example of abstraction, polymorphism, then they asked my fav sub, String related coding question to find the given words in the paragraph, They asked many students from projects only, and at last, they asked me do you have any questions for me, and I don't know why I said yes how was my interview sir, and I think for this reason I was not selected.
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
Program 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 Program 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 Program 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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