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      Program Analyst Interview

      8 Nov 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Indore

      Other Program Analyst interview reviews for Cognizant

      Programme Analyst Interview

      14 May 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Hyderābād
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Indore) in Nov 2019

      Interview

      First round was basic aptitude, english and coding. Second round was technical interview which was about basic concepts. Questions on project were also asked. The interviewer was very positive and motivating. My interview lasted for about 15-20 minutes. He asked questions on whatever I wrote on my resume. The last round was HR which was very basic and lasted for not more than 10 minutes.

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      What are stored procedures?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What is deadlock in a database?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      What are your short term and long term goals?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      What is the meaning of cognizant and why cognizant?
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Write the query to calculate 5th highest salary.
      1 Answer

      Question 6

      Write a query to calculate the median of salary in a given table.
      Answer question

      Question 7

      What kind of things will you consider if you were given to design a login/sign in page for facebook?
      Answer question
      1
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād)

      Interview

      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

      Programme Analyst Interview

      9 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai)

      Interview

      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

      Programme Analyst Interview

      7 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant

      Interview

      good and smooth. it was the intern position when i was hired by the company .first process is online test. and then interview. later offer letter. the postion. i was hired in 2022.