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. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chandigarh) in Feb 2014
Interview
I attended off campus drive of Cognizant.
There were three rounds
1. Aptitude test ( was conducted by AMCAT )
2. Technical Interview
3. HR interview
Aptitude test had 3 sections.
Quant
Logical reasoning
English
Test was not that hard and lot of sample papers are available online which one can refer to.
I was able to clear it and received a mail after 2 days that I am short listed for interview rounds which were on Sunday.
Tech round.
Just get thorough with your resume. I was asked questions about my projects. Summer Trainings and
Basics of OOPS, function overloading, operator overloading etc. it went on for 40 mins.
Then I was asked to wait outside for 5 mins for result of this round.
After 2 mins I was told I need to go downstairs and wait for my HR round.
I waited for an hour in a hall for my HR round.
HR round : HR was easy.
Was asked to introduce myself ( be confident and fluent )
I was asked what I knew about Cognizant ( I mentioned everything that I had read on Internet )
Why I want to join Cognizant?
As I am from ECE. I was asked why I want to be in IT company.
Just focus on giving straight forward answers to questions asked. Be honest and confident. :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to be in IT company being from ece background.
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