I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant in Oct 2011
Interview
I was interviewed for about 40 minutes.They asked me questions realting to DBMS,C,Software engineering.I was asked about my hobbies. When i told that I read novels.I was asked about my favourite novel.Then I was asked to tell what I liked most in the protagonist of that novel.She asked many questions about my project.I was asked to draw screen shots.They were very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a query to retrieve the names of all students who belonged to a particular branch who achieved more than particular marks in a particular subject
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
good and smooth. it was the intern position when i was hired by the company .first process is online test. and then interview. later offer letter. the postion. i was hired in 2022.