Tech Lead applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Tech Lead roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Tech Lead according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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Technical Round - Basic questions to screen. If you are good at basic things required for this role then you will clear this round.
Communication Round - To check your verbal communication.
Hiring Manager Round - To assess your behaviour and commitment.
Client Round - Overall expertise and customer centricity.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant in Feb 2021
Interview
One screening round,
One technical round,
One management round.
One Hr round. Went all on zoom and teams.
Logical queries and proxy design based questions.
Screening round was just to see whether you can crack the client round or not.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java basic, spring, problem solving, aop based questions
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Mar 2017
Interview
Interview is one day but very hectic process
There are questions on Rac mainly
Rac patching , performance tuning question etc
Also there are questions on data guard ,rman configuration questions etc