Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Feb 2025
Interview
In the interview, they asked basic Object-Oriented Programming concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism, along with simple coding topics such as loops, especially the for loop, functions. nothing else
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in May 2025
Interview
First round I'd Apti, verbal or English , technical according to the clusters mine was Java , and last interview it was easy first asked hr or behavioral questions then simple coding
Mostly revolving around skills mentioned in resume. Along side current projects worked in. Few questions involved pen and paper test as well. SQL queries, azure related data engineering specific questions.