I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Oct 2014
Interview
Had 3 level of interview
technical round
Manager round
Client Interview
Most of the questions are basic core java spring and hibernate
String reverse
Sql queries
Hibernate second level cache
Spring scope of the bean
autowiring
design patterns
The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Cognizant
Interview
Very poor interviewing process in Coimbatore.
The JD was for Java/Spring/Hibernate
But questions were asked for JQuery Angular JS.
I have been an interviewer too. But these people don't know what to interview.
I strongly advise to share the complete JD with the candidate. Please avoid using consultancies to shortlist candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions on core Java. Interviewer then started suddenly asked me whether you know Angular JS, JQuery, CSS, HTML5. I am sure even he doesn't know all of those
I was asked to attend a recruitment drive on a weekend, it took almost an hour to get the gate passes and enter into the company
All the candidates were asked to wait in a cafeteria and there was no air conditioners being switched on, so having to spend almost three hours there was very killing
There were two rounds of technical interview, interviewer in both the technical rounds we very polite and the questions were good(not very tough)
It was followed by hr discussion, the hr person was very very rude . He was very irritating, he was very harsh in his approach.
In the end they said that I will be receiving the offer in a week, the very next day got a call from hr team asking for some documents to be uploaded.
She was asking my time to take up the client interview but after a week there was no communication from them. When I called back she was saying that she is arranging some client interview for me.
After a month I called back to that hr she said my profile got rejected in client screening( but no client interview was scheduled for me) and she said if I need to proceed with some other clients I have to start all over again I.e.... Attending a recruitment drive
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were from core Java, Spring and hibernate