I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant in Jan 2019
Interview
For freshre it is the easiest one first they take one assessment test to test the aptitude and some coding part. After that if you selected face to face interview will be there aroung 20 to 30 minutes they check your basic programming knowledge
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Based on the waterfall model
The project that i made
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