Systems Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 13 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 Systems Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 14%
Personality test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Background check: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Boston, MA) in Oct 2013
Interview
Had a phone interview with recruiter, and then was asked to come in for an in-person interview. I met with the hiring manager and a senior person on the team. The interview seemed to be going well, and then the third person who interviewed me walked in and said he only had a few minutes and needed to go to another meeting. He took a look at my resume, asked me 2-3 questions and then said he had to go and would show me to the door.
No one ever followed up and called me back. I received zero feedback. Personally I'd say it's a very unprofessional process overall.
There are four rounds:
1. First round is communication.
2. Second round is gaming and aptitude. This section includes logical ability, quantitative ability, verbal ability, and games.
3. Third round is technical. This section includes two coding questions, two sql questions, 10 mcqs about python, 10 mcqs about cloud computing.
4. Fourth round is virtual interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my projects, cloud computing, sql mostly based on my resume.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Nov 2025
Interview
The interview went for around 15 minutes.They asked me basic coding questions, sql and dbms basic questions.They asked me on my internship.They told me to code for the palindrome question.At the end they asked any questions
Interview was on compus. And we had three rounds . two technical and one manager round. In Technical round they asked so many techni questions mostly related to sql such as duplicate, count, highest salary, etc. array related questions. And in manager rounds, uts was just a discussion about job profile
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain about strings, sql, python related questions, etc