Programmer Analyst Trainee 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 89% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programmer Analyst Trainee roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 328 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 Programmer Analyst Trainee according to 328 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Skills test: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 15%
Personality test: 12%
Background check: 7%
Presentation: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Drug test: 2%
Phone interview: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Nāgpur, Maharashtra) in Feb 2019
Interview
The aptitude test of Cognizant was web-cam at home based since they have no office in Nagpur.
Amcat conducts the exam. So you can guess the difficulty level. Around 4000 students from 100 colleges gave the exam. Most of the students were disqualified for unfair means.
Only 141 was shortlisted. Luckily I was one of them.
Aptitude test contains details as:-
1. Quant- 16 questions 16 minutes
2. Logical 14 questions
3. Verbal 25 questions
4. Automata- 7 questions and 20 minutes(I solved 1 correctly and 1 partially)
Results were declared after around 2 weeks. I was shortlisted.
Interview was scheduled on 10 February at Ramdeo baba College of Engineering.
First round was Technical and then HR.
In technical questions were asked from projects. Your branch related and programming languages(mostly C and some important definitions).
HR was just a formality.
All students who cleared the technical round were selected.
Around 80 students were selected.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Explain your project with block diagram. What are the applications of your project?
Smooth interview process as well as it was very interesting with ample feedback at the end. I enjoyed the conversation a lot and coverted the interview and accepted the offer.
Introduction
Basic of Oops and Programming
2 Coding Questions
Reverse String and Number
Question on Java and SQL Spring Boot and Other programing related questions like hashing map vs hash table why they are used