I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Hyderābād) in Nov 2010
Interview
Attended a walk-in. I had around 1 yr working abroad previously. So, I applied then asked to come to campus for an interview. The Manager whom I will be reporting interviewed me at a high level, then introduced me to a project lead. The PL interviewed technical questions then I was asked to leave.
After few days I was informed to join.
I liked the PM because he was very open about everything. He informed me that he wants me to join in short time. The HR mistakenly asked me to leave, but the PM asked the HR to call me back and ask me to come. So it was helpful because I was able to complete the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difficult questions are technical questions, so prior preparation helps. One question when do you use Materialized views and not normal views. What are the used of MV?
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