I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Amravati) in Sep 2015
Interview
Aptitude Test (Quantitative,Verbal,Logical) (Sectional Cutoff)
generally they will shortlist around 50% applicants through aptitude test
and after that Two rounds of interview ( Technical and HR)
Technical Interview (Success ratio 60-70 %)
HR interview (Success ratio 90%)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Interview :
Minor Project and Major Project
Java ,SQL,C,C++,OOPS concept
one Basic Program to code and some questions on current trends like
data analytics,Cloud,Bigdata,Hadoop, Virtulization etc.
HR interview:
Introduction
Extracurricular activities mentioned in CV and hobbies
Family background and questions about location constraint
Questions on academic performance
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