I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jan 2011
Interview
One tech plus one hR, decent crowd. Good number of panels. Questions were from Internet mostly and few from resume. Win the confidence of the interviewer and u are through. Best is to search internet for questions and answer them. Decent time spent on interview and quick selection process. Win win for both parties. Offer came in a weeks time. Be truthful and be straight forwrd. Make sure u pull the interviewer to the next question.
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