I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cognizant in Sep 2011
Interview
It starts with a simple aptitude test (Do refer previous question papers). Also focus more on the English section since this is the part most people screw up and is required in case of sectional cut offs.
Prepare your project data properly as most questions are based on this and make sure you have clear concepts of OOP principles and C language basics
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