I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Oct 2015
Interview
1st stage aptitude test by AMCAT.
2nd stage technical interview which was organised by AMCAT itself.
3rd stage HR interview conducted by the company representatives.
This was my first job interview.
Interview experience was great, actually better than expected.
The the technical interview was conducted by AMCAT and questions ranged from basic it related questions such as programming and data base to intermediate difficulty.
Questions designed differently for different branch for students. As I was from IT department, my questions were related to basic to intermediate IT concept. Questions about final year project were also asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I personally chose not to prepare for the HR interview before hand as it helped me be more honest the interviewer also send this and tried to neutralize the situation as I was a little nervous at the start of the interview, the interviewer tried to ease me into the process and by the end we were having a frank and friendly conversation.
It was evident that the questions were devised to throw you off of any preparations done beforehand, for example there was a rapid fire sort of round in the interview with random word association exercises.
Smooth interview process as well as it was very interesting with ample feedback at the end. I enjoyed the conversation a lot and coverted the interview and accepted the offer.
Introduction
Basic of Oops and Programming
2 Coding Questions
Reverse String and Number
Question on Java and SQL Spring Boot and Other programing related questions like hashing map vs hash table why they are used