I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Jun 2016
Interview
The process started with recruitment folks sending an invite for weekend drive. It was a scheduled one, but it turned out to be scheduled walk-in.
Interview started a good 4 hours after arriving at venue and by the time Technical, managerial and HR round was done, it was 7 pm in the evening. Recruiter said, they will roll out the offer in 2-3 weeks time.
Fast forward to close to 2 months, there is no sign of offer letter.
On contacting, I get a template reply from recruitment team. I heard they are doing it to most of the folks who were interviewed in pune in SB road office. They just fill their database with people, who have cleared the interview and then sleep on it. If there is any requirement in future, they might contact you for the opening. Doesn't give a very good impression of the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic and advanced technical and project management question.
Technical Interview lasted for an hour and it covered current project and tools , techniques used in the project were given more preference.
Next interviewer asked some basic ML, GenAI and Responsible AI questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Current project flow, tools used, challenges and their resolution
Given interview all rounds I cleared but they started ghosting after HR round.
Asked to share all documents to proceed further but no response from there end. Even escalated on mail also.
Technical Interview based on SQL and java's object oriented programming. A few java questions were asked along with a coding question. A lot of the questions in sql were about joins