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 online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Mar 2011
Interview
There was an genral written test which was very easy to get through.No quant only english and reasoning.Later within one week i have got a mail to attend interview.Interview was started with GD a very simple topic..Just show your english skills no need of any knowldge to speak.Topics would be very easy to ...Then comes technical..Here you can expect technical stuff in depth either from core or computers...based on the HR the interview varies..After this there is HR round which has a general set of questions on your personality. and thats it.
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Question 1
regarding technical stuff there were some difficult questions
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