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 in-person. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderabad)
Interview
First they askd to stay for half an hour ..then they called out names of people for written test whose experience .After that first was a technical round which took for almost 45 min and then a project manager round which took almost 30 mins
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They generally asked from Java ,J2ee concepts like Servlet JSP,JDBC. From Core java they stressed on Collection Framework and Object Oriented Features.Overall the interview process was good.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in May 2014
Interview
i had a one to one interview process and the employer conducted interview for namesake and there is no interest shown in the question.Question not relevant to experience. Interviewer asked more question on one components and not covered entire tools. I expected more standard question but that was not the case. It look like for name sake interview process done.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Sep 2011
Interview
I got through campus recruitment, there was two round, written and technical f2f.
Both was pretty easy and questions asked in f2f technical interview was on the subject we studied.
F2f technical interview they also do stress interview and apart from technical knowledge they also check general knowledge and social knowledge as they don't want just book worms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic Engineering questions on unix, sql, java etc