I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chandigarh) in Feb 2014
Interview
I attended off campus drive of Cognizant.
There were three rounds
1. Aptitude test ( was conducted by AMCAT )
2. Technical Interview
3. HR interview
Aptitude test had 3 sections.
Quant
Logical reasoning
English
Test was not that hard and lot of sample papers are available online which one can refer to.
I was able to clear it and received a mail after 2 days that I am short listed for interview rounds which were on Sunday.
Tech round.
Just get thorough with your resume. I was asked questions about my projects. Summer Trainings and
Basics of OOPS, function overloading, operator overloading etc. it went on for 40 mins.
Then I was asked to wait outside for 5 mins for result of this round.
After 2 mins I was told I need to go downstairs and wait for my HR round.
I waited for an hour in a hall for my HR round.
HR round : HR was easy.
Was asked to introduce myself ( be confident and fluent )
I was asked what I knew about Cognizant ( I mentioned everything that I had read on Internet )
Why I want to join Cognizant?
As I am from ECE. I was asked why I want to be in IT company.
Just focus on giving straight forward answers to questions asked. Be honest and confident. :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to be in IT company being from ece background.
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