I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Velur) in Sep 2014
Interview
For freshers there will be three rounds 1.Written 2.Technical 3.Hr for written they will ask basic aptitude and reasoning and english for technical you have to learn basic programs and hr will check your attitude
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
they will check your basic knowledge be sure that you know every thing what you have kept in your resume dont add the skills which you dont know
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