I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Feb 2011
Interview
Aptitude Test there might be 60 - 100 questions with 1 hr of time - They might have fixed the upto mark based on that hey can select the candidates - they may filter 50 % candidates , Group Discussion - Panel may contain 5 - 6 candidates - here they may filter upto 25% , Technical round - 2 - 3 panel members with technical questions you may also write and show the program or chart for them and atlast HR round - Just kond of background verification.
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