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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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sept 2018
Interview
I applied through campus recruitment drive. Initially a screening test is done via amcat which is full of aptitude and few small programs. some 400 students are shortlisted for next interview then they conducted a technical and HR Interview after a week they announced results.
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