Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3 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 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Software Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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Asked java question
Java 8 features.
Oops and programming.
Program question using stream API asked me questions about lamada expression functional interfaces and one question where I have to print even number from the list collection using Lambda expression or Java 8 feature also there was one question where there were an grams and you have to group the anagrams that match with each other
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Asked java question
Java 8 features.
Oops and programming.
It was good and not easy all the concepts in java were asked and even programs some of the aptitude questions even given this what happend and the interview was about 40 min and i had a chance to explain everything
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant in May 2025
Interview
I cleared aptitude and coding rounds. Aptitude had basic, easy questions. In coding, I chose Java. Faced 2 SQL, 2Java, and 1 HTML-CSS-JavaScript combined question, solved successfully. It is kinda logic based question also.