Cognizant Front End Software Engineer interview questions
based on 32 ratings - Updated Jan 12, 2026
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Front End Software Engineer 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 69.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Dec 2015
Interview
Interview and interviewer both were good, but it took a complete day to complete the process.
I went there in the morning and wait till 4 pm to get the chance of first interview. There were 3 rounds of basic interview. Interviewers were good. But please go with the packet of some food since you'll not get anything to eat there.
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Basic and practical question related to your stream. If you are comfortable in your domain, you'll easily crack the interview.
Question were like, lazyloading in jquery, json data integration, about plugins that you developed, details about your projects etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Mumbai) in Apr 2016
Interview
Was a recruitment drive in Mumbai. Not well organised.The process took more than 4 hours.Got through the technical and managerial rounds.Informed I was selected and asked to fill-up a HR form.Got a call from hr after a month.Asked for respective documents.No communication after that.