I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (New Delhi) in Feb 2014
Interview
Got the interview call through amcat exam at a Galgotia on feb 9th 2014.
700-800 students were there and registration took some time however process was smooth.
1st interview was technical and those who cleared the first one get the chance to sit for 2nd HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I am writing in sequence the questions he asked me in technical interview -
1.Introduce yourself.
(He was checking my body language while i was answering).
2.What is an OS?
3.What is and give example of Real time OS?
3.What is a kernel?
4.What is paging?
(then I said i don't know and I am not comfortable with OS)
5.What is Data structure?
6.what is an array?
7.what is a stack?
8.Difference between stack and array?
9.what is normalization ?
(i said i don't know)
10.explain ISO OSI model.
thats it.And he rejected me.
BTW I am an IT student. Don't expect these questions if you are not a CS/IT student.
Introduction
Basic of Oops and Programming
2 Coding Questions
Reverse String and Number
Question on Java and SQL Spring Boot and Other programing related questions like hashing map vs hash table why they are used
It was three round interview with written test and 2 easy interviews. One technical and one with HR for compensation discussion. All were conducted on the same day. In order to get selected need to stand out and answer uniquely.