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 69.3% 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 through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Aug 2021
Interview
cognizant offered three categories to apply in 2021.
1.Genc Next
2.Genc elevate
3.Genc
For Genc Next you have to choose a role, so the following rounds will be related to the role you choose.
I chose Full-stack developer.
First round-30 mcqs and 6 coding questions (it had 2 sql queries)
second round-Technical interview + HR.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.was asked to write sql query given a scenario. (I used inner join.)
2.About all types of joins in sql.
3.java coding question - To count vowels given a string.
4.was asked to code exception handling in java.
5.Given a code snippet was asked to explain the code and what will be the output. It was related to polymorphism (method overloading and over riding).
6.what is static variable and static methods?
7.what is final variable? define an example final variable in the code editor.
8.what is lambda expression?
9.what is difference between java 8 and java 13?
10.list some new features of java8.
11.what is the use of finally block? code one example
12.list some aggregate functions in sql
13.write a query to find second highest salary from the employee table.
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