Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(121,059 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 121,059 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognizant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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121K reviews
2.0
Feb 29, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Decent remuneration Aggressive sales targets Innovative strategies for growth Good and competitive (genuine) work force Very good recruitment practices

Cons

Bias based on onsite-offshore recruits (onsite recruits forget increments or promotions) Communist agenda (you cannot grow quicker than the rest based on performance alone, you gotta please many people :)) Growth purely based on how much sales you can achieve (even for technical architects which means you gotta work outside of client engagements you get those yearly increments or three year promotions) Very bad regional model (Chennai Vs Kolkatta with each region trying to put their own guys into projects even at the cost of dislocating onsite recruits) Simply bad and disorganized management (however this may differ across projects)

4.0
Feb 28, 2012

It was a learning and growing experience.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Great Clientele 2. Aggressive 3. Opportunities to grow 4. Considerate about employee preferences 5. Young and dynamic organization

Cons

1. Imbalance between personal & professional life 2. Lack of professionalism from seniors 3. Issues in getting holidays (even if you are eligible for PTO's) 4. Growth in terms of designation is very slow

2.0
Feb 28, 2012

Typical Off Shore Body Shop

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Company trying to move into the higher end Management Consulting business. Business Model is still lower cost labor. Clients still see organization as a body shop and not a tier one consulting organization

Cons

As stated above Not a Mature Consulting Organization.Consulting Management is a group of cast offs from real tier one consulting organizations. Level of maturity of deliverables in poor but the arrogance of the delivery teams is very high. Client satisfaction from past consulting engagements is very poor

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