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 69.4% 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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Oct 2021
Interview
Cognizant on campus recruitment drive 2022, hired through Digital Nurture Program and on campus recruitment tests.
Students were directly called for interview those who completed the DNP and others took the on campus test after which they got called for interviews if they passed the cut off.
Interviews had one technical and one HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL, DBMS, OPPs and cloud computing concepts
- Asked to introduce myself
- Talked about career plans and future
- Asked a simple code to check for prime number (along with possible optimisations)
- Java OOPs questions like pillars of OOPs and examples for them
- Asked about SQL and DBMS basics
- Almost asked every basic Operation ,like DDL./ DML statements and give examples for them
- Joins and subqueries - Types of joins and examples
- like operator and questions on employee table
- cloud computing basics and some AWS services
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