I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Phagwāra) in Jul 2019
Interview
there was a total of 3 rounds.
1st round was an online test.(English, Aptitude, Debugging)
1st round was quiet easy one can complete before half time.
2nd round was face to face technical round (basic DSA questions)
2nd round hardly lasts for 5 minutes.
3rd was HR round.
all of the 3 rounds were very easy
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.
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