I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Oct 2012
Interview
Step1: A reasonably difficult timed quantitative aptitude and verbal ability test(30 QA Qs in 30mins and 25 VA Qs in 30 mins.
Step 2:A single technical + HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions from arrays,pointers,data structures,C skills and electronics fundamentals like flip flops,adders,semiconductors,doping,etc.
Some personal questions like reasons behind choosing engineering,education background,family.
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