Program Analyst Trainee applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 94% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Program Analyst Trainee roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Program Analyst Trainee according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 20%
Background check: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Phone interview: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Nov 2022
Interview
The interview process was very smooth from starting to the end . Starts with a online assessment with questions starting from easy to medium. Then interviews. it only had one round - technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first question was to introduce myself and some basic stream related theoretical question & basic aptitude question
Second question was related to programming language that was python for me which included basic theoretical question related to DSA (list, tuple, dict, set, linked list) not at the level of trees/graph, dynamic programming and OOPS along with 1 basic coding question the interview went on for almost 30 min.
It was held on superset platform where they asked about basic OOPS concept,palindrome code and sql related questions which were answered well by me and got offer letter after some days ,it was smooth process and interviewer was also very cooperative
Easy aptitude and communication rounds and Easy and clear interview with basic oops concepts and programming questions and easy to clear the interview and good opportunity to get an offer with basic concepts
Just, simple..coding questions in strings and arrays(frequency of letters in the string ,even and odd into new list).moreover 1,2 sql queries about 2nd max,3rd max in the table and Some basic cloud based questions