I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcutta) in Sept 2013
Interview
Pre placement talk . followed by AMCAT test .Shortlisted students are Interviewed .one person at every panel. Mostly technical questions. After that new shortlisted students get called for GD. Topics on political, social issues.
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