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 70% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant in Nov 2014
Interview
It was a campus interview and the process took two days. First day we had an aptitude round. The difficulty level was easy-medium. The results were declared in the eve and the selected candidates had to appear for the technical interview the next day. Questions were asked from all the basic areas of IT. Then the selected candidates had a HR round where we had to sign a form stating any location of placement is accepted by us.
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Question 1
Having done a project is a plus. Most of them were asked to explain about their project
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Oct 2014
Interview
The process consisted of aptitude test followed by technical interview and hr round. Aptitude test was conducted by aspiring minds and consisted of English, Verbal and Quant. The next day, technical interview was conducted in which questions based on OOPs, DBMS and projects were asked. HR round was a mere formality.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
Written test which is conducted by AMCAT,Written test pattern is Aptitude,Reasoning and verbal.Questions are very easy but time is the most important factor to clear the test.
In technical interview mostly the questions are asked from DBMS,SQL.Asked from joins,normalization,etc.
and finally HR ,tell me about yourself,why cts?,what you know about cts?,asked about relocation,etc