Program Analyst Trainee applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 94% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Program Analyst Trainee roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 39 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 Program Analyst Trainee according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 20%
Background check: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
Personality test: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Drug test: 2%
Phone interview: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Jun 2025
Interview
The interview was chill and conversational. The interviewer focused on core concepts, asking beginner to intermediate-level questions in Java and SQL, making the experience smooth and comfortable overall.It felt more like a discussion than a formal evaluation, easing any nervousness.
It was held on superset platform where they asked about basic OOPS concept,palindrome code and sql related questions which were answered well by me and got offer letter after some days ,it was smooth process and interviewer was also very cooperative
Easy aptitude and communication rounds and Easy and clear interview with basic oops concepts and programming questions and easy to clear the interview and good opportunity to get an offer with basic concepts
Just, simple..coding questions in strings and arrays(frequency of letters in the string ,even and odd into new list).moreover 1,2 sql queries about 2nd max,3rd max in the table and Some basic cloud based questions