Good place to start your career - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Aug 2, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance Flexible timings, good attitude at workplace Good variable pay outs

Cons

A person is given a job irrespective whether the Job demands him or not. Due to slack in the IT market, most of their projects are either Support or enhancement, quality of work is depreciating day by day Management doesn't care about employee needs or his demand for better quality of work. There is no rotation policy for onsite opportunities, one who gets lucky remains lucky and unlucky ones never get lucky. Mangers believe themselves to be GOD.

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Cons

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Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

* They train new grads, so you get a lot of valuable training * Depending on the projects, it has the potential to have a good life balance *Hybrid and Remote opportunity Will recommend to get your foot in the door

Cons

* Pay is not very competitive. Needs improvement * Depending on some client projects, the work-life balance can also be very bad * The culture is horrible, the outlook and appearance of the company is so different than what is on the ground—cutthroat culture, pushing culture. * Sometimes it enables a rude and disrespectful culture * Career growth is very minimal * tend to hire lots of indians, and an indian dominated culture/circle can make a non indian feel left out

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