It’s time for this year’s placements. The TCS Ninja NQT 2020 was completed with a bang a week ago. At this point, we, at PlacementSeason, take pride in saying that our students and client colleges have produced the highest placement conversion in the country.
Keeping that aside, let’s see about the next biggest recruitment drive of the year, which is Cognizant Recruitment 2020. If you are trying for Cognizant Recruitment 2020, you must be aware of the news that the company is planning to hand out more than 18% higher pay scale to the entry-level engineers joining in 2020. As such, you can see that the pay scale is increasing from ₹3,38,000 to ₹4,00,000 per annum. Thus, you, as a fresher passing out in the year 2020, can’t make a better decision than aiming for CTS careers this year.
Let’s see everything about the cognizant recruitment pattern 2020 and careers for freshers.
Cognizant Recruitment in a gist:
In this year’s Cognizant Recruitment, the company will aim to hire for 16,000 job openings. Any guesses on the number of applicants for these 16k posts?
Well, nearly 3,00,000 people are expected to compete for these 16k posts. This means that the competition for the CTS Recruitment 2020 is higher than ever.
As per the placement officers, Cognizant is hiring on an average of 15,000 to 20,000 freshers every year. The company seems to get about 33% of its overall revenue from digital solutions.
Cognizant is well-known for hiring IITians and has recruited over 500 IITians across the country during the past three years.
Cognizant Recruitment 2020 – Eligibility Criteria
You are considered eligible for taking part in Cognizant Recruitment 2020 if you meet the following requirements:
- You are completing B.E., B.Tech, BCA or MCA
- You have an overall percentage of more than 60% or CGPA 6
- You do not have an education gap of maximum one year
Cognizant Recruitment Process 2020
Below is the CTS question pattern for the online test. But you must not forget that the Cognizant Recruitment process 2020 doesn’t end with just this. The details of the rounds are as follows:
- Online Test
- Group Discussion
- Technical Interview
- HR interview
Cognizant Recruitment Dates 2020
As per the latest information we got, it is expected that Cognizant Recruitment will start from the 1st of September (next month).
Cognizant Interview Process 2020
Once the initial rounds of the Cognizant Recruitment 2020 are over, you will be called for the Cognizant Interview Process, if qualified. On the day of the interview, you will be required to carry the following things:
- Xerox copies of your mark sheets (X, XII, Graduation)
- Printout of your hall ticket
- Three passport size photos
- Two copies of your updated resume
The face-to-face interview will be divided into two rounds as Technical interview and HR interview.
Find below some of the expected Cognizant HR Interview questions:
- Why should you be hired?
- What role did you play in the final year project?
- Why do you want to join Cognizant?
- What do you think you will be in the next five years?
- Are you comfortable in relocating to any part of India?
- What’s your expectation on the salary?
Cognizant Recruitment 2020 – Updated Question Pattern
When it comes to CTS question pattern 2020, we have received the latest information that the pattern remains the same as that of last year. Accordingly, there will be 4 sections to attend, which you need to complete in 89 minutes. Let’s see the section break up here:
Section |
No of Questions |
Duration (in minutes) |
Level of Difficulty |
Quantitative Aptitude |
16 |
16 |
Medium |
Logical Reasoning |
24 |
35 |
High |
Verbal Ability |
22 |
18 |
Medium |
Automata Fix |
7 |
20 |
High |
Note: Although a couple of sections in Cognizant Recruitment 2020 is categorized as Medium level of difficulty, the difficulty level of the overall Cognizant Recruitment exam is tagged as “high” meaning that you need to prepare well for the exam, which is possible only through continuous and strategic practice.
Cognizant Recruitment 2020 will be conducted using AMCAT. The type of exam will be adaptive, and there will be no negative marking in this exam.
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Cognizant Online Test 2020 – Topic-wise Bifurcation
Let’s review the Cognizant online test pattern in detail here:
Quants:
Topic |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty |
Importance |
LCM & HCF |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Divisibility |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Number Decimal Fraction & Power |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Average |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Ratio & Proportion |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Algebra |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Surds & Indices |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Percentage |
6 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Profit & Loss |
6 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Simple & Compound Interest |
3 to 4 |
Medium |
Medium |
Speed Time & Distance |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Inverse |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Time & Work |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Allegation & Mixtures |
6 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Area, shape and perimeter |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Logarithms |
7 to 8 |
High |
High |
Permutation and Combination |
3 to 4 |
Medium |
Medium |
Probability |
6 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Pipes and Cisterns |
3 to 4 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Geometry, Coordinate Geometry |
6 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Clocks & Calendar |
7 to 8 |
Medium |
High |
Verbal:
Topic |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty |
Importance |
Synonyms |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Antonyms |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Contextual Vocabulary |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Error Identification |
8 |
Medium |
High |
Sentence Improvement & Construction |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Subject-Verb Agreement |
8 |
Medium |
High |
Tenses & Articles |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Preposition & Conjunctions |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Speech & Voices |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Inferential and Literal Comprehension |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Comprehension ordering |
8 |
Medium |
High |
Selecting Words |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Sentence Selection |
7 to 8 |
Low-Medium |
Medium |
Logical Reasoning:
Topic |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty |
Importance |
Coding deductive logic |
4 |
High |
Medium |
Blood Relation |
6 |
High |
Medium |
Directional Sense |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Objective Reasoning |
6 |
High |
High |
Selection decision tables |
4 |
Low |
Low |
Syllogism |
6 |
High |
Medium |
Statement & Conclusion |
6 |
High |
Medium |
Seating Arrangements |
6 |
High |
Medium |
Coding Decoding |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Decision |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Analogy and Classification pattern |
4 |
High |
Medium |
Coding pattern and Number series pattern |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Odd Man Out |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Data Arrangements |
6 |
High |
Medium |
Mathematical Orders |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Inferred Meaning |
4 |
Low |
Medium |
Logical word sequence |
4 |
High |
Medium |
Data sufficiency |
4 |
High |
Medium |
Coding Section:
The number of Automata fix questions in the Cognizant on-campus recruitment drive will be 7. On the other hand, the number of questions for this section in off-campus recruitment will be just 2.
The Cognizant coding questions can be from Basic programming, Control Structures, Conditional statements, Linear data structures, Advanced data structures, and Sorting and searching algorithm.
Coding Proficiency: While this section is not included in the Cognizant Recruitment Drive 2020 for the role of Programmer Analyst Trainee in Grade A and Grade B colleges, this additional section will occur in those colleges in which CTS recruits for Associate role, with INR 6,50,000 per annum package.
CTS Placements 2020 – Cut-Off Marks
For Cognizant placement papers, the average cut-off marks would be 75 percentile for each section, and you should score more than 65 percentile in each section to move on to the next round. You must note here that the percentile cut-off is not your college-based, but based on the national percentile from the past Cognizant Recruitment drives and CTS placement papers.
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Is there coding in cts
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