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%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Phone interview: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Presentation: 5%
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Nov 2018
Interview
I got many calls for Cognizant and one was direct Interview call from AMCAT. The interview rounds were: Technical and HR Interview. Technical interview was for approx 20 minute and HR interview was 7-8 minutes.
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Question 1
Sorting questions and few questions on my project, basically they asked me just to say technical things in Technical interview and HR interview was very easy, just explained the policy and asked about passport and relocation.
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