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%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Saint Louis, MO) in May 2018
Interview
First they will call you for the phone screening interview. After that they will set up a technical call interview with the technical department and then next day before the day of interview they will send you an email to inform you that you are rejected!!!
Candidate are spending their valuable time and days and days of hard work for the role and interview. The team can not just behave in a such a way.
Vogue responses and unbelievable process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Background related questions. While that even interviewer running short of words.!!
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Greater Noida) in Oct 2014
Interview
First technical interview was being held in which tough questions were asked ion the basis of what you have mentioned in your interview.
Then if you pass that you have to go though HR interview in which they check yopu confidence and flexibility level .
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Apr 2018
Interview
I applied through AMCT. The process take single day .interviewed at Cognizant Technology Chennai.
1.first round will be online test with simple java program and objective questions from spring framework,Hibernate,Servelet.
2.second round technical Hr (in this asking questions from OOP concepts, collection,Spring MVC,DBA
3.Third round (final round) just checking the communication and salary discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Multithreading, inheritance, oops concepts, Webservices, spring architecture,Java exception Handling