Senior Consultant 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 72% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Consultant roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 66 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 Senior Consultant according to 66 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 22%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 11%
Background check: 10%
Drug test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 1%
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I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (London, England) in Jan 2024
Interview
It was easy process of application and 2 rounds interview with few questions to check how aligned you are in IT consulting i.e. awareness of the telecom industry changes. Also how I helped to solve the problems at client end
F2F interview. 1sr round concentrating on sql and pyspark. 2nd round project specific round concentrating on scenario's, technical and mangerial questions. 2nd round can be interviewed for multiple projects.
Being f2f and near to walk in, about 300 candidates appeared for interview and only one person got selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sql queries and same should be written in pyspark
Scenario based adf, adb and pyspark
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cognizant (Sydney)
Interview
Quite technical in terms of interview. Interviewer is also tech savvy which is good filtering candidates as they go. Also a good opportunity to prep and brush up skills that aligns with the job description.
It was an easy interview. First round was around case solving and behavioral question. Second round was with Reporting Manager, it revolved around fitment and willingness to join the role