Program Analyst 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 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Program Analyst roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1,730 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Program Analyst according to 1,730 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Drug test: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Phone interview: 5%
Other: 3%
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I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
There were 3 rounds. aptitude->technical round->hr. Aptitude round is simple. All the questions were asked about basic arithematic and reasoning. Technical dealt with the basic concepts of all the subjects but most of the questions he asked were about dbms. A few questions on coding. Then the hr and it was a quite casual talk, about indian politics, family background.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected