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 69.4% 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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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Aug 2016
Interview
Interviewed at Cognizant for a Java Developer role on August 2016. The process was extremely tedious! I was given time-slot 9-30 am - 12-30 pm but my turn came around 3 pm!
Coming to the interview process! The interviewer probably considers herself as a close associate of the CEO. For the first time, I encountered such an arrogant interviewer! Even if correct answers were given, she kept on asking whether I was sure about it or not!
Starting from definition of Class,Object to Polymorphism, Abstraction, difference between Method Overriding & Method Overloading, some scenario based questions from Collections, exception handling were asked. End of the day I was rejected.
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Question 1
What is a class, what is an Object, Difference between overloading and overriding. Explain exception hierarchy. What is a thread. How can a thread be implemented. What is an interface.
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