I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Indore) in Sep 2014
Interview
As like many other companies cognizant also has 3 rounds :
Aptitude test - conducted by AMCAT difficulty level is easy. Then it was followed by technical and hr interview.
The written test had questions from profit loss, speed distance, simple interest, problems on ages etc.
Verbal ability had questions on synonyms, antonyms, passages, error correction etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical interview- Mostly on projects, "technology mentioned by you in resume" and "basic C programs" like palindrome, reversing of string, Fibonacci, Armstrong and many other. If you will crack it 90% chances of getting placed.
HR interview - Hobbies you've mentioned in resume, easy puzzles, all HR standard questions like Why CTS?, some simple technological questions like what is java and "Questions about relocation".
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