Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.3 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 69.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Developer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Developer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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There are 2 round 1 technical and 1 hr in technical they ask coding and basic questions and in hr basicsalary discussion thus is for freshers.in technixal they ask basic coding they ask to writeandselectedbased on coding mostly.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in May 2025
Interview
It last for 20 min..They asked me self intro and then they qns related python basics...What is the difference between list and tuple, What is yield key word and asked me write a code in python...then genral hr qns..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To solve a program that need move 0s in array...in python (My cluster)
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant in May 2025
Interview
it was a easy interview with basic java coding question and 1 java coding question.And after that they asked me basic hr question.
the interviewer was nice.He asked me about my college and gave me easy question.Also asked me abou sql.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
about reallocation, about joining and about college.