Programmer 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 87% positive. To compare, the company-average is 77.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programmer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 39 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 Programmer according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 16%
One on one interview: 15%
Personality test: 15%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 12%
Skills test: 10%
Drug test: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 4%
Phone interview: 3%
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I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād)
Interview
It was a campus interview. It was a 2 day process. First day involved an aptitude test and the selected candidates were interviewed one on one the next day. The aptitude test involved several sections which tested the candidates on communication, analytical, attention to details and more skills. The interview involved questions from the course and programming concepts.
I only had one round. Started with self intro, then 2 questions were asked. One is relates to apptitude and reasoning and the other interview question is about coding. And ofcourse some typical HR questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Return True if the last element in an array is 6 otherwise return False
Easy for college grads they can easily get through it they are good with basics in programming and logical thinking with good communication skills, couple of technical rounds followed by HR round
It was good expirience.The interviewer asked about my projects and other stuff.Asked to introduce myself.And later asked doubts about my project.Next was HR round where they asked the HR questions