I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2008
Interview
Off campus as well as on campus interviews takes place. On campus interviews usually as written test round,group discussion round (optional as it depends the strength who passed for wriitten test) and finally an interview ie., both technical and HR interview will be there. Off campus is via CTS employee referral or via CTS website. It also has the same rounds depending hte number of applications and the nature of the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Logical reasoning questions in the form of stories are usually the most unexpected ones..wherein they try to understand how you will handle an unexpected situation if it arises..How you take the situation in the story they say and how you'll handle is all that matters...
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