Software Developer 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 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Software Developer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
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this interview is in offline location but in online mode, they keep asking me questions as I am senior developer, didn't asked anything from database, sql or from my projects. they are asking if I know about ml libraries
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bhopal) in Oct 2025
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I enrolled in a digital nurture course which is organized by cognizant in march 2025 then i give a online test which include apptitude and sql and coding question and a web development question where i need to make a weight converter page
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the max in an array
reverse a string
string is a data type or not
about cloud computing
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Noida) in Aug 2025
Interview
My interview was pretty simple, I was just asked basic dsa questions and was asked sql queries and DBMS questions. Also make sure youre pretty good with everything you've written in your resume
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic DSA is the thing to go to any interview round.