Programmer/Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programmer/Analyst roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 26 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programmer/Analyst according to 26 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Personality test: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 11%
Background check: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Phone interview: 6%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 3%
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Interview was easy with basic technical questions like oops concepts, core JAVA, spring boot, microservcies and SQL. Simple coding questions like reverse a string, anagram, linked list. It was a nice experience.
Interview
The questions were based on resume and java . It's the 2:1 interview. Most of the questions were asked from the deep skilling training . The hiring is Digital nurture 4.0 which the offer were provided as GenC and GenC Next based on interview performance
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Question 1
Program for exception handling using function in python
The interview was taken virtually and it the questions asked are directly related to the JD. It is better to prepare based on the JD provided by the company. There will be a minimum of 2 rounds excluding the HR.