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Cognizant Programming Analyst Trainee interview questions

Updated Jun 8, 2026

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Program Analyst Trainee Interview

Sep 16, 2022

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

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I interviewed at Cognizant

Interview

Simple interview with basic coding and aptitude questions. Asked coding questions like palindrome, reverse a string, prime or not etc. aptitude questions are related to averages, profit and loss etc.

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Question 1

Program to print whether a number is prime or not?

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Programming Analyst Trainee Interview

Aug 18, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Declined offer

Positive experience

Average interview

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chandigarh) in Sep 2019

Interview

First Round was Aptitude , Logical Reasoning and Automata Fixing Round with medium level difficulty. After That There was one technical round and one HR round which was easy. It was pool campus recuirtment experience.

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Question 1

Interviewer jumped in Projects directly. I had a project in my resume using JavaFX so he asked me to Design Simple Login Form. Also asked How would you check if password is atleast 8 char long and does have atleast one special character, one uppercase character etc.

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Program Analyst Trainee Interview

Aug 7, 2022

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Nov 2020

Interview

It was conducted online and the interviewer asked me, my introduction and basic questions regarding my branch and coding. There were even some quantitative aptitude questions and what do I know about the company.

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Question 1

Biggest failure in my life and how did I overcome that

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