I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Sept 2013
Interview
1. aptitude test- adaptive aptitude test. not very tough. moderate dificulty.
2.technical- nothing really tough was asked. basic concepts and ideas related to engineering background, basic knowledge of programming.
3.hr- basic questions relating to one's academic and personal background, leadership, job location. no negotiation on salary.
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