Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Senior Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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There was one face to face interview, one telephonic interview and one round of Hr interview for salary negotiation. First 2 rounds were technical of approx 40 mins . Got the offer letter afer a week of the interview process.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in May 2017
Interview
First round is programming test in which they asked to write the program they provided, Complexity is Medium
Second round is F2F technical Interview, In which they asked about OOPS, C# and then SQL Server and Then MVC questions
The process took entire day, like i gone there at 10 AM and my F2F interview happen at 8 PM
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is deterministic functions in SQL
2 What is the difference between PUT and POST
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Feb 2016
Interview
First round was Written test, they asked about to write logging mechanism in mvc. a javascript question, i.e., to write a code, on click of radiobutton some action should trigger. and some sql problem