I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant in Oct 2011
Interview
First, i had a phone interview to check my background.
Second i had a human resources interview to re-check my background and a little conversation in english.
The same day i had an interview with a manager that told me about testing, what was it and if i was interested in joining a testing project after the 3 month trainee was over. I said yes.
Another day i had to get the personality test, took about an hour, and another personality test web-based.
Then, an online english test
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.