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:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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The test was very easy and focused only on basic sorting questions like bubble sort, selection sort, and insertion sort. No tricky logic or edge cases were asked—just fundamentals. Also asked to write arstrong number program
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Apr 2025
Interview
The interview process consisted of an online assessment followed by two technical interviews and one HR round.
Questions focused on data structures, algorithms, OOP concepts, and basic SQL queries.
The interviewers were friendly and asked scenario-based questions to assess problem-solving skills.
Overall, the process was smooth and completed within two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does the CAP theorem apply to distributed systems like Snowflake or Hadoop?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bonnevent-Velloreille) in Oct 2024
Interview
whole interview process was too good!. they are asking easy dsa questions like happy number, armstrong number. if, you are from java back ground then they are asking about core java, heap memory, stack memory all these were asked
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
solve a dsa problem of armstrong number?
solve a sql query of getting 2nd highest salary of employee?