Cognizant reviews

3.5

7% would recommend to a friend

(83,018 total reviews)
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47% approve of CEO

9% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 83,018 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.7 stars).

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83K reviews
2.0
Jun 7, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

An Academy which strongly supports professional growth and initiatives that are targetted for employees, ample onsite opportunities, flexible work timings most of the time and excellent benefits - insurance, flex accounts, matching 401(k) and all (though insurance premium is increasing and options are decreasing every year.)

Cons

Career growth stalls after a point of time. Performance reviews are heavily biased, which could be attributed to incompetent management. Most of the times, one to one appraisals are not even conducted. The buzz words during appraisal times are "Bell-Curve", "Normalization", "Vertical/Location/Designation quotas", etc etc and you are never rated according to performance. Compensation is below par compared to competitors. Lot of initiatives are taken for career improvement of employees, however they are not always effective. I think though the initiatives are promising, those are not implemented or delivered effectively.

1.0
Jun 3, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The work that TriZetto does is so very important to the future of healthcare in the US. From an altruistic standpoint, their results are very satisfying.

Cons

Management is unnecessarily demeaning to employees - there is really no expectation that your work will will be respected let alone your person. Poor treatment of others is often rewarded.

2.0
May 31, 2011

Perfomed for 5 yrs...got peanuts..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- lot of (wont say good) onsite oppurtunities.

Cons

- No fair review of promotions. - Each account is treated as diffrent company. - Use & throw policy. -Sr, Mgmt is incompetent to handle employee greivences. - Worst salary package.

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