Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2020
Interview
Preplacement talk
Gen C online test
Interview (tech +hr)
Divided into 3 parts
1) pre placement talk
2) online test (Apti, verbal, error codes, paragraph writing)
3) interview shortlist
4) Tech and HR conducted together in November 2020.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About project, core subject, programming and HR questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2020
Interview
It was a virtual interview which took around half-an-hour. They asked me about my projects and extracurricular activities, my personal strengths, and my weaknesses. Since there was a lockdown that year, they asked me about what did I learnt during the lockdown and some questions from my resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you choose this domain for your project?
What is the difference between NoSQL and RDBMS?
Tell me something about yourself.
Why Cognizant?
Tell us a situation in which you faced some difficulties and how did you overcame that?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
It was pure technical and they asked few basic programming qns which was easy as well as hard for me as I am a Biotechnology student. Then asked about some basics of information technology