Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 25%
Background check: 25%
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I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sept 2015
Interview
On-campus interview. Consisted of aptitude round, that was easy to clear, one face to face interview that was technical. I was asked about my resume and projects. Had one aptitude round (quants and verbal), one technical and HR round.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Explain about your final year project. What tech stack you used?
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