Cognizant Systems Administrator, Linux interview questions
Updated 10 Nov 2025
based on 5 ratings
Difficulty
Easy
Experience
Mostly negative
How others got an interview
33%
Recruiter
Recruiter
33%
Employee referral
Employee referral
33%
Applied online
Applied online
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Cognizant interviews FAQs
Candidates applying for Systems Administrator, Linux roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 28 days.
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Technical and Manager and HR asking more about technical and process oriented also projects asked and answered very well.
Notice period is immediately and best
compensation offered
Weblogic and red hat Linux
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (London, England) in Jan 2020
Interview
Worst Interview process.. around 500 people are coming just like walkin. Interviewer struggles to ask question in linux. Interviewer is not skilled and has poor communication skill. Worst process ever
There are three rounds of interview. First technical, second managerial and last round is HR.
They will check your basic knowledge of Linux system admin and stability etc. The last part is about your stability and salary negotiation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic of Linux, like user management, disk management , group management and all the basic commands which is used in day in and day out.