Hi everyone,

I attended the Cognizant Digital Nurture (DN) 5.0 – 2027 interview on August 4, 2026, for Java FSE / Angular.

Today, our college T&P cell released a list of candidates who have been shortlisted for another virtual technical interview on August 21, 2026, through Superset.

What I'm confused about is this:

The candidates who are included in the August 21 shortlist are also candidates who attended the August 4 interview. From my department, around 3 students who were shortlisted had what I would consider an average interview, and their interviews were only around 20 minutes.

So I'm wondering what this actually means for the candidates who are not included in this new list.

Does this mean:

• The candidates shortlisted for Aug 21 are being given another technical interview before final selection?
• Are the candidates who are not on this list rejected, or can they still be considered later?
• Is this Aug 21 interview a second/re-evaluation round for candidates whose first interview wasn't enough to make a final decision?
• Has Cognizant done something similar in previous DN batches?
• If someone performed well in the Aug 4 interview but isn't on this list, does that mean they are already being considered for the next stage?

I'm asking because the people shortlisted from my department mostly had short/average interviews of around 20 minutes, so I'm confused about how Cognizant is deciding who goes into this additional round.

If anyone has information from previous DN batches or knows how Cognizant handles these additional interview lists, please share.

Thanks!

Will I Get Selected? Need Honest Opinions About My Interview

I recently attended an interview and I'm confused about whether I will get selected. I would really appreciate some honest opinions from people who have gone through similar interviews.

The interview started around 10 AM, but I had to wait until around 5 PM for my interview. By that time, the panel members seemed to be in a hurry to finish the interview.

Questions asked:

General

• Introduction
• Are you willing to relocate?
• Are you comfortable with rotational shifts?
• Are you willing to work in different roles?

Java / OOP

• Polymorphism
• Abstraction
• Inheritance
• Abstract class
• Interface
• Exception handling
• Try-catch
• Method overloading
• Method overriding

SQL

• Primary key
• Foreign key (I was NOT able to answer)
• DELETE
• DROP
• TRUNCATE
• Trigger (I was NOT able to answer)
• Joins (I was NOT able to answer)

Other

• Angular
• Microservices
• ArrayList
• LinkedList

They also asked about my projects. I was able to explain my projects very well, including the concepts I used and some real-world examples.

Coding round

Coding Round

At the end, the interviewer asked me, "Should I give you the code, or will you write the code yourself?" I said I would write it myself.

The question i choose was to reverse a string. I started writing the code, but the Scanner/input was not working properly in the compiler, so I couldn't execute the code successfully.

The interviewer then said, "It's not a problem, no issue," and moved on.

After that, they asked if I had any questions for them, and the interview ended.

One more thing I noticed: when I checked the application details through Inspect/Developer Tools, I saw a field called numOffer showing 2, but my application status is still showing Applied. I don't know whether this has any connection with the selection status or if it's just an internal field.

So I'm really confused now.

Do you think I still have a chance of getting selected?

I know I couldn't answer some technical questions and I couldn't complete the coding question successfully, but I feel that I explained my projects and the concepts I knew quite well.

Would appreciate honest opinions from people who have gone through similar interviews.