Programme Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.4 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 70.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 5 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 21%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Drug test: 12%
Personality test: 9%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
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I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sept 2015
Interview
On-campus interview. Consisted of aptitude round, that was easy to clear, one face to face interview that was technical. I was asked about my resume and projects. Had one aptitude round (quants and verbal), one technical and HR round.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Explain about your final year project. What tech stack you used?
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