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      Senior Associate Interview

      Dec 17, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Chennai
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai)

      Interview

      Normal interview process, but they should keep panel members who are really interested to hire new talents and not the ones who just ask random questions by reading from online sites and expecting same wording answer. Also questions were irrespective of the position applied. Also it's required to update their traditional mindsets and old processes and practices which was been used 10 years back in scenario based questions with new practices which are been followed in the market and suggested as a best practice by product owner itself. If there's any hurry or time slot provided to conduct interview, please inform the same to candidate at the start of the interview, so h/she can keep track of it and answer the questions asked in the interview, rather than skipping answers or interrupting candidate in between and moving to next question. Also if it's hard for the interviewer to frame the question properly, please provide an option in the interview tool to let interviewer detailed out or type their complete question properly, rather than depending on candidate to assume half information which wasn't mentioned in the question before and later tell the candidate directly it's wrong. Please provide time to finish the answers before firing next 50 questions, as candidate is not a chatbot to respond back in secs and sometimes might require extra minutes to think and respond back to the question with either some good example or scenario wherein h/she might have used it before. Recently heard and read similar experience of other candidates on Glassdoor. Overall the worst interview experience ever.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      React and only React Questions that too reading from random online sites.
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      Question 2

      Vague scenario based questions, wherein all given answers are wrong.
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      Other Senior Associate Interview Reviews for Cognizant

      Senior Associate Interview

      Apr 20, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Pune
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune)

      Interview

      First there will be a screening round ,most probably a telephonic or video call followed by a Managerial round Lastly a client round where you will be asked about your day to day contribution in project

      Sr Associate Interview

      Apr 15, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Winston-Salem, NC
      Accepted offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Winston-Salem, NC)

      Interview

      Screening from a cognizant employee via a phone/teams call, sometime involving a scenario based coding question or a tell me a time when kind of questions, then a client round interview.

      Senior Associate Interview

      Feb 4, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Coimbatore
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied in-person. I interviewed at Cognizant (Coimbatore)

      Interview

      L1 - technical L2 - Managerial HR L1 is pure technical (explain project (cobol+jcl +db2+cics) L2 - tech +mangerial HR - general HR questions L1 is pure technical (explain project (cobol+jcl +db2+cics) L2 - tech +mangerial HR - general HR questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      >> cOBOL Version conversion >> Migrating cobol to java >> DB2 queries
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