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Cognizant Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 9 Apr 2025

Top Cognizant Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. 1 Tell me about your self 2 What is c# 3 What is oops concept 4 What is Delegate 5 Difference between polymorphism and what are its type 6 What is out and ref keyword 7 W ...read more
  • Q2. Q1. Write a program to check whether the given String is pallindrome or not using two pointers approach in 3 mins?
  • Q3. Explain me about OOPS Concepts. Write a program in C++ to calculate Fibonacci Series. Write a program in C ++ to calculate Factorial. What is Call by value, Call by refer ...read more
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Cognizant Interview Experiences

141 interviews found

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Multi threading, microservices

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Oops, collections, about your project, streams
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. ..................hfgnb

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well..................hfgn
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Logical thinking
Verbal
Maths calculations

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About yourself About the languages know About the organization
  • Q2. About computer languages i know Why we chose their company for job

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview:
  • Personality Development
  • Communication Skills
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Should be confident but not over confident.
Should say don't know if you don't know the answer rather telling irrelevant answers and irritate them.
Concentrate more on communication skills

Programmer Analyst Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies for Experienced

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Q5. What if a wheel of a car suddenly screws off while driving will u ... read more
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Coding test

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical interview on basics from language you prefer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare basics in the language you are comfortable
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jul 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Only Java 8 features they asked and Spring boot also
  • Q2. Data base releted question also

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - project is good then you are in a best place

Cognizant interview questions for designations

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 (1)

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 (1)

 Programmer

 (28)

 SAS Programmer Analyst

 (1)

 Programmer Analyst 1

 (5)

 Sse Programmer Analyst

 (1)

 Programmer Analyst Intern

 (1)

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Whatever I mentioned in my resume, not more than that.
  • Q2. Java, Selenium, Manual Testing

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Pepare your skills well whatever mentioned in the resume

Get interview-ready with Top Cognizant Interview Questions

Programmer Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 7 Oct 2023

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Oct 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Some aptitude questions

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1 aptitude and programming questions and oops concept , dbms
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Look into CBSE maths and keep practising puzzles like Patterns etc.

Round 3 - Coding Test 

Focus on your fundamentals. Often times we focus on the bigger concepts and forget the basics like OOPs concepts, or even the most basic syntax.

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly related to your background and commute etc.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Superset and was interviewed before Apr 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

It was a test for PAT at Cognizant and had Aptitude Questions that are asked in any general tests including Math, Reasoning, English etc.

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The technical interview consist of Introducing Yourself, why you want to be in IT being a mechanical engineer, then some questions from mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics), Live Aptitude questions (3. ...
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic things like which location you want, you documents verification kind of things .

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Applied this job through superset portal and got placed at free of cost without any physical round, everything was held online.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Basic Selenium questions, asked to write WebDriverWait syntax and XPaths. Asked questions from Agile - Scrum
  • Q2. Basic Java questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interview was simple but interviewer was assessing how to respond to the questions and how better we perform in a team
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Mar 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Quantitive, Logical, verbal, Coding

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Have to do some Codes
  • Q2. Prime Number, Palindrome Number
  • Q3. What is introduced in java 8
  • Ans. 

    Java 8 introduced lambda expressions, functional interfaces, streams, and default methods.

    • Lambda expressions allow functional programming in Java.

    • Functional interfaces are interfaces with a single abstract method.

    • Streams provide a way to process collections of data in a functional way.

    • Default methods allow interfaces to have method implementations.

    • Date and Time API improvements.

    • Nashorn JavaScript engine.

    • Type annotation...

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Personal Details , And Offical Documents

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep Grinding It's Easy to get into Cognizant. Focus on the Aptitude test and do some Logical programing like for the technical Interview. Don't need That much prior knowledge. Just have grip on language like C, JAVA , PYTHON , SQL

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Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview for experienced candidates?
Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates are Technical, Aptitude Test and HR.
How to prepare for Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview for experienced candidates?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Functional Testing, Test Cases, Smoke Testing, Test Data and System Integration Testing.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview for experienced candidates?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview for experienced candidates -

  1. 1 Tell me about your self 2 What is c# 3 What is oops concept 4 What is Delegat...read more
  2. Q1. Write a program to check whether the given String is pallindrome or not usi...read more
  3. Explain me about OOPS Concepts. Write a program in C++ to calculate Fibonacci S...read more
How long is the Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview process?

The duration of Cognizant Programmer Analyst interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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