Senior Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Associate roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Senior Associate according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
One on one interview: 15%
Background check: 15%
Group panel interview: 10%
Drug test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Personality test: 6%
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Very professional there was an HR round, 2 techincal rounds and a final hiring round .. Object oriented concepts, leadership, SQL Back end.. Technical questions were answered based on experience and fundamentals
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Object oriented concepts, leadership, SQL Back end
First there will be a screening round ,most probably a telephonic or video call followed by a Managerial round
Lastly a client round where you will be asked about your day to day contribution in project
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Winston-Salem, NC)
Interview
Screening from a cognizant employee via a phone/teams call, sometime involving a scenario based coding question or a tell me a time when kind of questions, then a client round interview.