Programme 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 Programme 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 Programme 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. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sept 2018
Interview
Well I had totally three rounds of interview.
1. Online test.(Quantitative,logical,verbal,automata fix).
2. Technical hr.
3. Personal hr.
The online test was at a medium level, don't worry about automata fix (it will be very easy) concentrate in your verbal.
In technical they would ask about the programming languages u know and about your project.
In final hr they would determine your attitude (flexible) and how confident you are.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Interview:
1. Explain Overloading and Overriding in Java.
2. Automatic promotions of data types in overloading concept.
3. How will you handle Exceptions.
4. Use try catch finally in various combinations.
5. What is recursion.
6. (OR) As a E.C.E guy they asked me what is microprocessor and micro controller.
7. Explain about your project.
8. Reasoning part where you would be given a situation and how would you handle such situations.
9. Are you a smart or a hard worker?
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