I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cognizant (New York, NY) in Dec 2010
Interview
Easy process, not many questions, vetting process is random. You meet with a recruiter, fly to HQ, have three rounds of interview, then you get email, then contract, then all the other logistics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions regarding DB were unfamiliar but overall nothing was close to be difficult
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