I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Sept 2015
Interview
1. First,we had to clear the aptitude test provided by AMCAT. It had an quants round, a verbal round and an analytical/logical reasoning round.
2. Those of us who cleared the test, were given the date and time of the interview.
3. The interview process consisted of 2 rounds, a technical round and a HR round.
4. During the technical round, I was asked questions about project (had mentioned it in the resume). I was asked to talk about VLSI Design (mentioned as an area of interest in my resume)
5. I was asked to write any sample code from C/C++ (mentioned as skills on my resume). I was then asked what data structures were, and was also asked to list out various sorting techniques and their time complexities.
6. The HR round lasted about 10 minutes. I was asked to talk about myself, was asked if i was okay with relocation and was then given time to ask any follow up questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are Data Structures?
2. List some sorting techniques and what are their time complexities?
3. Write ANY sample code using C/C++.
Two interviews with coding test and and aptitute test , pretty easy , aske about projects done and java oops questions also sql question , position was full stack developer
We had many rounds like 3 rounds before interview and interview was quite good. I got selected into cognizant as and programmer analyst trainee. I did not focus much on java, so due to that i Got 4 lpa
They asked very basic questions of reversing a string java basics and sql introduction and asked some data structures concepts finally few hr questions so on finally interviewer looks very strict interview got rejected