I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Oct 2011
Interview
Initial phone call from HR.
I was also interviewing with another company and did this in parallel.
1:1 interview with Manager
He just clarified what was expected. Not very clear about the role. He wasn't very technical about the role.
Client Interview
I had two rounds of technical client interview. Did badly in the first - well in the second - with the lead architech - that clinched it!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
He asked me a generic technical question about ioctl's (operating system) but i never used that skill on the job!
Technical Interview lasted for an hour and it covered current project and tools , techniques used in the project were given more preference.
Next interviewer asked some basic ML, GenAI and Responsible AI questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Current project flow, tools used, challenges and their resolution
Given interview all rounds I cleared but they started ghosting after HR round.
Asked to share all documents to proceed further but no response from there end. Even escalated on mail also.
Technical Interview based on SQL and java's object oriented programming. A few java questions were asked along with a coding question. A lot of the questions in sql were about joins