I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Sep 2012
Interview
It was a two layered process. I was selected from the campus. First we had to give a very centric aptitude test and then passing that we would arrive at the interview stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About myself an my academics, about my project of last year, and my overall behavioral
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