The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Mar 2008
Interview
Hiring process was conducted in Shreds.Around 3000 candidates were present.We had a written test at the first stage .From that around 300 folks were shortlisted.Then we has a 1:1 interview were they asked questions from academical background.Most of the questions were basic .They were specifically looking for confidence of each individual. Then the shortlisted members were called for the induction in 2months.
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