Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,828 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 120,828 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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2.0
Jul 9, 2009

Typical consulting company

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Pros

Very flexible during project or location selection process Excellent policies for relocation and transfers Very helpful and excellent in reimbursements and other benefits

Cons

Salary is way lesser that the industry average specially in places like Silicon valley, CA where the average salaries are much higher than the rest of the US.

3.0
Jun 30, 2009

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Pros

I loved the fact that Cognizant gave me a break frm a unusual background. I loved the way Frank is leading the company.

Cons

The Visa processing process has worsened , due to the huge growth. The would love to have a nice mix of people - from different backgrounds.That would make working for Cognizant even better.Right now the work environment is predominantly comprises of South Indians.

2.0
May 31, 2009
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Pros

Better than other Indian IT services companies.

Cons

Not a good company and will not provide you with growth opportunities. You will definitely not get a promotion if you are not engaged in at least 2 year long project under one manager. Even then you will get a promotion if you suck up to your manager a lot and you manager should be allocated a promotion for your designation (There are fixed number of promotion allocations to each manager based on revenue and growth prospects of the account he/she is handling). Basically your chances of promotion depend on the 1) length of time you work under 1 single manager 2) Growth of account (nothing to do with your hard work but, how well cognizant sells to the client) 3) Your relationship with your manager (which is important generally) 4) Location of your manager (If you and your manager are located at same client location it will boost your chances of promotion) 5) Number of promotions allocated to your manager at your designation level If you are not working for the same manager for 2 years and if both of you are not present in same location you will not get a promotion even if you are a genius and get appreciation mails from client daily for hard work and some unique solutions your provide to solve client's problems.

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