I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant in May 2010
Interview
The process started with a IQ test. The consist of mostly math and english questions.
The math questions were simple compared to english questions.
Also, some logical reasoning questions were asked.
It was followed by interview process.
The interviewer asked some basic background questions about studies, family, strength and weakness.
Also, he checked my ability to write program in C. He gave a simple problem.
He also checked my thoroughness in core subject by asking some basic principles.
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