Sr. Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Associate roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 133 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 Sr. Associate according to 133 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 17%
Background check: 13%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Dec 2022
Interview
It was easy & mostly around what I mentioned in Resume. They talked about project I done & question around it only. Apart from that some basic questions related to my platform.
It was 2 round simple process, 1st Technical and 2nd is also technical/ manageral. Overall exp was good. Interviewer touched all the concepts from Basics to advanced on selenium and Playwright.
First there will be a screening round ,most probably a telephonic or video call followed by a Managerial round
Lastly a client round where you will be asked about your day to day contribution in project
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Winston-Salem, NC)
Interview
Screening from a cognizant employee via a phone/teams call, sometime involving a scenario based coding question or a tell me a time when kind of questions, then a client round interview.