I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jun 2011
Interview
One day process. Stared off with a Aptitute Test , shortlisted candidates called for a interview ( both F2F and panels) .. time taken differed for each person..very patient panel and team from the Co.. process was very well organized and conducted..Fibonacci series, palindrome programs were common among non-IT/CS candidates.. many non-IT people were selected in the final list along with 30% IT students.. may be company feels non-IT attrition is less
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic programming, my interests and comfort level for a career in IT
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Rānchī) in Sep 2012
Interview
I appeared for on campus interview.Interview was pretty easy.Asked general questions about my Engineering stream.They asked general questions about a diode,resistor.Also asked about C and c++.The interviewer was very calm and composed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
they asked about why did i choose ECE.
After choosing ECE why I am I shifting to IT?Some generals questions on ECE.Questions about C and C++
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Sep 2014
Interview
This was a campus placement event for hiring freshers. First round was Quiz consisting of questions from aptitude, reasoning and english. Intermediate level test not very tough. After that we went through technical round involving my education details, projects & questions ranging from Programming basics to database & hardware. Again it was neither easy nor tough. Mid-Level you can say. Final round was HR round.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How does normalizing a database affects petformance?