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 (Indore) in Nov 2019
Interview
It was a state level campus organised in our college. The first round was on amcat then TI and HR.
In TI the interview start from –Tell me about yourself ? The interviewer was asking thing from what I am saying. Since I told about family at last, He ask me about – What’s your sister is doing ? Then – What all programming languages do you know ? I told C, C++, Java Core. Then He told me to write a code in java –For taking two string from user and finding which one is lengthy in terms of length ? Since I am not using java nowadays I have done little bit syntax error but he doesn’t told about that. He ask me to tell about – what is public ? then –What other specifiers are there ? then –What is static ? then -What is void ? then –What is String args[] ? Since I am saying OS again and again. He ask me –What is OS ? then –What different types of OS are there ? then –What is compiler ? then –What is Interpreter ? then –What is difference between Compiler and Interpreter ? Since I am not getting the difference at that time I told him that “I am not getting it right now”. Then Since I have done internship on Web Development. He ask me about it and told me to -Write a code for validation using javaScript for a input id(length atleast seven) ? I made the whole code. Here also there are syntax errors I told him clearly that I have done internship 4 month ago and there can be syntax errors and explain him the whole code. He ask me to about project – Explain all about your project ? and after it Okay Thank you Now you can go….
In HR he told me to sit then ask me –How was your day ? I told it was nearly okay. He ask me again why nearly ? then –Tell me about your family ? then what all programming language do you know ? then –what was your project ? after at last He ask me that – Do you want to ask any thing ? I ask about can you give my feedback……
That’s all.
- Finally Selected.
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
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