Aptitude and HR rounds. More technical and communication and capability of handling situations. 1 hour aptitude and there is a break for 2-3 hours for review and next round is technical after that immediately HR round
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chandigarh) in Feb 2014
Interview
I attended off campus drive of Cognizant.
There were three rounds
1. Aptitude test ( was conducted by AMCAT )
2. Technical Interview
3. HR interview
Aptitude test had 3 sections.
Quant
Logical reasoning
English
Test was not that hard and lot of sample papers are available online which one can refer to.
I was able to clear it and received a mail after 2 days that I am short listed for interview rounds which were on Sunday.
Tech round.
Just get thorough with your resume. I was asked questions about my projects. Summer Trainings and
Basics of OOPS, function overloading, operator overloading etc. it went on for 40 mins.
Then I was asked to wait outside for 5 mins for result of this round.
After 2 mins I was told I need to go downstairs and wait for my HR round.
I waited for an hour in a hall for my HR round.
HR round : HR was easy.
Was asked to introduce myself ( be confident and fluent )
I was asked what I knew about Cognizant ( I mentioned everything that I had read on Internet )
Why I want to join Cognizant?
As I am from ECE. I was asked why I want to be in IT company.
Just focus on giving straight forward answers to questions asked. Be honest and confident. :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to be in IT company being from ece background.
It was a written Test , Technical Round and then HR round . In the technical round there were question on my project. They asked me why I want to avail the job, They gave me various situations and asked me how I will react.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me something about yourself that is not written in your resume