I applied through university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jan 2012
Interview
Generally has two rounds of interview. The first round was aptitude and the second round was HR/Technical. Since i went via on campus, i felt that the interview was easy to clear
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It was three round interview with written test and 2 easy interviews. One technical and one with HR for compensation discussion. All were conducted on the same day. In order to get selected need to stand out and answer uniquely.