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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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Amravati) in Sep 2015
Interview
Aptitude Test (Quantitative,Verbal,Logical) (Sectional Cutoff)
generally they will shortlist around 50% applicants through aptitude test
and after that Two rounds of interview ( Technical and HR)
Technical Interview (Success ratio 60-70 %)
HR interview (Success ratio 90%)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Interview :
Minor Project and Major Project
Java ,SQL,C,C++,OOPS concept
one Basic Program to code and some questions on current trends like
data analytics,Cloud,Bigdata,Hadoop, Virtulization etc.
HR interview:
Introduction
Extracurricular activities mentioned in CV and hobbies
Family background and questions about location constraint
Questions on academic performance
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