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 through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in May 2011
Interview
Hiring process includes 2 Technical Round and 1 HR round. Technical Round are more effective than HR round. If you clear technical round, then you are almost done. Technical interview is relatively technical to the position. In HR round as well you will be asked for some technical issue resolution and discussion about work culture and position.
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Question 1
Mostly, I was asked technical questions related to position i.e. C++ Developer position. I was asked to write a program of String class, Operator overloading/overriding. Virtual function. Then SQL questions. Some of C Questions like malloc, calloc, structure, union, recursion program. Previous organization's technical issues which I faced and their resolution.
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