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. I interviewed at Cognizant (Madras) in May 2009
Interview
It was a campus recruitment. As they all go, I was selected for an interview through an analytical exam which I would say was averagely difficult. You must be prepared for the exam and make sure you get a good score as it does weigh heavily in their hiring decision. The interview it self was very straight forward and was mostly behavioral in nature. But I heard from my friends that they do ask technical questions so be prepared for Computer Science related subjects. People are nice and make you very comfortable in the interview so do not be tensed about it. I was selected and my suggestion to would be to be calm and prepare for the quantitative exam and computer science technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
He asked my what my negative points were and immediately followed up with a question on what I am doing to come over it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Vellore) in Sep 2013
Interview
The process started with their presentation and they had provided the written aptitude round waiver for the students having >75% and/or >7.5 CGPA academic consistency and for others there was a written round which mainly focussed on aptitude-verbal,logical reasoning & quants.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interview started off pretty well with 2 members in my panel,they asked about myself and asked me tell more about my place,they were mainly checking my communication skills.Then they moved on to my project and were asking me to explain more about it..they seemed very interested in my topic..it was a hardware and software integration one which included use of microcontrollers..they asked me to write down the code of my project(just a few main functions and snippets), they asked what software engineering principles i had applied in my project,
The interview went for about 20 minutes.