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 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 41 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 Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied for a job opportunity with Cognizant and everything looked like moving very smooth until the interview. They will schedule the interview time and who is going to take the interview. But you will never get a call on time. When you follow up with them, they never pick your call. They will make excuses that they were busy with client meetings and whole lot of things. And reschedule the same interview the next day and it continues for few days until you decide to drop. I mean if you are buying someone's time then you should respect it as well. Everyone is busy. I would never suggest to join such a company who cannot meet their commitment (unless you have a real need to). Unfortunately this has happened to me 2-3 times until when I finally decided to never work for this company. I have inquired about this attitude with lot of my friends and all have the same review.
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Question 1
Few technical stuff and then they will end up with the HR will call back.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Greater Noida) in Feb 2015
Interview
At first i filled d form to apply through amcat... i got call for written at G.C.E.T. Gr. Noida on 31 jan i cleared that ...on 12 Feb i Called for an interview at same venue of my TR & HR were scheduled on 15 Feb Firstly they verified docs. as its off campus drive.. then i went to TR I cleared it n went to HR i cleared it too... n sign on an Agreement but now m waiting for result... overall its a very nice experience hope to be get a positive response from cogni. HR was mainly concerned about relocation and willing to work in night shifts. I had faced a good environment over all interview process its a freat being a part of this.
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Question 1
I m telling about only TR round ... as i m from I.T so they started from DBMS that what u know about DBMS... SQL Queries Data Constraints in DBMS.. what is DATA Integrity... my first query is in sql was write an sql query to get name of top 3 employee of every deptt... as deptt were 5.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sep 2014
Interview
My interview process took for two days as I had taken the recruitment via college. 1st day it was about quantitative and logical reasoning online test. Second day was the interview both technical as well as HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basics of c and c++. You will be asked to explain your final year projects and questions based on resume