Analyst 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 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Analyst roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 24 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 Analyst according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 10%
Group panel interview: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Other: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Apr 2011
Interview
I applied to Web analytics division of CTS Chennai through an employee of Cognizant. I was called for the interview along with my resume. They asked me why did I choose the web analytics division when I was from Civil engineering. They have seen my previous web analytics related works. And some related technical questions were asked. They asked to present a presentation on the analysis of couple of websites to test my analytical and presentation skills. I was interviewed by Asst. Manager - Projects and Associate-Projects. The interview consisted both HR and Tech questions. Both of them were friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did I choose Web Analytics division when I got good prospects in my core Civil Engineering?
got through the online technical test. sat for the interview online, waited for 30 mins, no interviewer on the opposite end. rescheduled automatically for the next day. but same thing, no interviewer present.
good not got the offer interview was very hard as the interviewr was a new and he has taken about 2 hour of interview in which hw askd many questions even after solving many i didnt goyt the offer
It was only one round of around 30 mins.
The interviewer was professional and kind
Asked questions on OOPs, SQL and java also asked to code a string based question