I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Nueva Delhi) in Feb 2014
Interview
Got the interview call through amcat exam at a Galgotia on feb 9th 2014.
700-800 students were there and registration took some time however process was smooth.
1st interview was technical and those who cleared the first one get the chance to sit for 2nd HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I am writing in sequence the questions he asked me in technical interview -
1.Introduce yourself.
(He was checking my body language while i was answering).
2.What is an OS?
3.What is and give example of Real time OS?
3.What is a kernel?
4.What is paging?
(then I said i don't know and I am not comfortable with OS)
5.What is Data structure?
6.what is an array?
7.what is a stack?
8.Difference between stack and array?
9.what is normalization ?
(i said i don't know)
10.explain ISO OSI model.
thats it.And he rejected me.
BTW I am an IT student. Don't expect these questions if you are not a CS/IT student.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cognizant (Calcuta) in Jan 2014
Interview
I gave AMCAT in October 2012 and got an interview call from Cognizant this year in January on the 27th. My interview date was set on 29th January, 8 am at Kolkata IT Park Gangapur.
First, our xeroxed documents were arranged and then we were called one-by-one for the interview. It was a one-to-one season.
There was no GD.
Questions asked:
1. Introduce yourself
2. Why did you apply to this?
3. C program to swap digits of a number ex. 64 to 46
4. What is sampling?
5. Difference between microprocessor and micro-controller
I was able to answer the electronics parts but was stumped on the C program and the first two HR questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you apply to this? Being an instrumentation engineering student, convincing the interviewer why I wanted to get into the IT industry was hard.