Cognizant·Business Analyst

Cognizant Business Analyst interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

HyderābādPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My later rounds were heavily focused on communication and finance fundamentals.

In the HR round, they checked communication skills, and the manager round went deep into finance-related questions.

I was asked about things like contingent liabilities, accruals, and topics related to financial statements, including reserve surplus and other finance concepts. They also gave me a specific example and asked me to reason through it using journal-entry style thinking. The finance content was clearly the hardest part for me, and it felt like they wanted accuracy more than general familiarity.

At the end, there wasn’t an offer. I walked away feeling like I’d understood what they

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