Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
Basic rounds like aptitude, communication and logical reasoning. Second round was technical interview.They tested me on fundamentals and asked me to solve 5-7 c problems based on pointers. I was asked about joins, triggers, and sql queries based concept.. And they asked me about my projects. If you are comfortable with java, the questions will be based on java.
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Technical questions were mostly based on c and sql
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
hired through college placements. there are two rounds after the aptitude test. the aptitude test is not so tough. the technical interview round consist of programming fundamentals related to oop and data structure etc. the hr round consist of usual questions asked in hr rounds.
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the questions were the fundamental programming questions like pros of oop, how does doubly linked list work, etc
I applied for a job opportunity with Cognizant and everything looked like moving very smooth until the interview. They will schedule the interview time and who is going to take the interview. But you will never get a call on time. When you follow up with them, they never pick your call. They will make excuses that they were busy with client meetings and whole lot of things. And reschedule the same interview the next day and it continues for few days until you decide to drop. I mean if you are buying someone's time then you should respect it as well. Everyone is busy. I would never suggest to join such a company who cannot meet their commitment (unless you have a real need to). Unfortunately this has happened to me 2-3 times until when I finally decided to never work for this company. I have inquired about this attitude with lot of my friends and all have the same review.
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Few technical stuff and then they will end up with the HR will call back.