Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 65 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Senior Software Engineer according to 65 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 22%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 6%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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Walk-in interview it was and they selected few of the candidates and I was one of them we had 3 rounds of interview and in HR round they finalized offer and they said we will get that in few days but lateron after 2 weeks someone from cognizant called and started saying "you need to give one more client interview if you pass that then only offer will be rolled out". I thought I was the only one who stuck with cognizant in this postion but I heard from other candidates also that they did the same and till now they haven't scheduled client interview not they have given any offers. Very bad experience never try to give interview in cognizant again.
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Regarding projects i worked and then regarding techstack java, springboot, hibernate, microservices etc
Simple questions about java and spring boot.
Only one round no other technical rounds .
One Hr round and salary discussion .
Mainly focus on cor java , spring boot and microservices
2 technical rounds followed by HR round. All rounds will happen virtually. Technical round with some problem solving questions. Also topics related the latest tech stacks, updates and real time challenges faced in past projects. Current project tasks and responsibilities.
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Question 1
Performance issue faced and solution I have worked.