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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Try to learn basics of DSA and the Project you have built. The interview is mostly on database, sql queries and java/python programmes. Try to solve puzzles also before your interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My ML Project Explanation from scratch including all CNN Libraries and and Python programming questions on topic like list tuples etc.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jun 2025
Interview
Didn’t get an interview call over all process was good .first round was communication test ,second round aptitude reasoning game based problems , third round was coding in that round I solved 4 out of 5 but I didn’t get interview call
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sep 2025
Interview
basic dsa and problem solving question like printing numbers in java,find duplicate element,etc and talks about projects done and some puzzles. It was a smooth process and was pretty easy for me.