Programme 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 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Programme Analyst roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 28 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Programme Analyst according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 19%
Personality test: 17%
Background check: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Phone interview: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Presentation: 5%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Oct 2018
Interview
It was Pool Campus Drive and the rounds are changed based on the strength on that day.
1st Round - AMCAT Exam (Aptitude+Reasoning+English)
2nd Round - GAM (Don't worry its for name sake - you should have AMCAT score high)
3rd Round - Technical Round F2F (This depends on the mentality of the interviewer)
4th Round - HR (Light).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
As said this depends on the mentality of the interviewer
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