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Updated May 16, 2023
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Anonymous Employee in Columbia, MO
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cerner (Columbia, MO)
The world’s biggest consulting firms help enterprises future-proof their businesses, but they’re themselves witnessing an unprecedented disruption. According to a report by CB Insights, traditional consulting firms grew by only 2% over the last five years. The industry is growing, but not at the pace it’s accustomed to.
- name something IT related you had to work with a group on.

Anonymous Employee
I applied online. I interviewed at Cerner
Very straight forward. There were four different interviews . One with the recruiter, one with the manager, one with a senior engineer and the last one with a team member i ended up working with.
- Describe a long-term project you managed. How did you make sure everything was running smoothly?
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cerner
Lengthy with multiple panels. Misleading recruiters. Was told I was a good match and perfect for the role. Then was notified they couldn’t hire me due to my previous employer. Claiming a non compete that is not in fact in place

Anonymous Employee in Kansas City, MO
I applied online. I interviewed at Cerner (Kansas City, MO)
Easy interview process. Mostly behavioral questions. Build a good rapport with your interviewer and you are likely to get the position. Most employe s have long tenures, but this could also be because they do layoffs pretty frequently.
- How did you deal with (insert scenario)

Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Cerner
Fair and have 3 rounds , with 1 english language test Manager rounds are good and very supportive and cool interviewer. Direct questions will be asked for the topic related to the position and JD
- About vmware vsphere and windows server OS

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Bengaluru
I interviewed at Cerner (Bengaluru)
It was good the interviewer was very polite basic introduction and job description was explained by the interviewer and explain about company, the interview went well and good. And end up interview in good way by tanking the person
- What is Sql Difference between the drop truncate delete And sql queries

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Emporia, KS
I interviewed at Cerner (Emporia, KS)
several "pre interviews" had to reach out several times to get the ball rolling to get an interview or hear back about anything. They were not very responsive and for a position that was described as critical the process to fill it seemed very long an drawn out.
- where do you see yourself in 5 years

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cerner
Worst interview experience ever.. they arrange interviews just to promote their company.. no matter how well your interview goes they will still send you a rejection mail..also before sending rejection mail they make you fill candidate experience survey form 😀
- Basics of sql e.g difference between primary key and foreign key, joins, aggregate functions

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Bengaluru
I applied online. I interviewed at Cerner (Bengaluru) in Apr 2023
1st round was witb the Team leader started with introduction and than interviewer explained about cerner and my role in detail, it was a great discussion. Ended with technical questions on SQL.
- Technical questions on SQL joins and other questions on SQL queries

Anonymous Employee in Bengaluru
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cerner (Bengaluru) in Apr 2023
The process took almost 3 weeks. Round one is based on SQL, Communication, Query writing and Quant. So they started with some questions about the resume to make me comfortable and then 5 questions on SQL and 1-1 each for com and apti.
- For the communication test, the interviewer asked me to speak for three min at least on any topic of my choice. SQL 3 questions constraint, joins and normalization and two questions for writing a SQL query which is based on join and case when. at last one question based on time and work. He tell me all about the job role etc while I solve the quant question and wrote the query

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Munich, Bavaria
I applied online. I interviewed at Cerner (Munich, Bavaria) in Apr 2023
I had a screening interview with Human Resources. The interviewer was nice and the questions were first related to me and then to the job. He then explained the interview process (one more with the team leader and then another interview with a manager). However I was not called for the next interviews.
- What was my knowledge of CRF databases/or which databases for CRF filling have I used.
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cerner as 75% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.15 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Physician Executive and Site Coordinator rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Software Associate and Software Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Cerner takes an average of 21.29 days when considering 13 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Adoption Coach had the quickest hiring process (on average 10 days), whereas Site Coordinator roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 45 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Cerner according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone Interview: 22.50%
Background Check: 15.00%
One-on-One Interview: 15.00%
Drugs Test: 10.00%
Presentation: 10.00%
IQ Intelligence Test: 7.50%
Skills Test: 7.50%
Group Panel Interview: 7.50%
Personality Test: 5.00%
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