Cognizant reviews

3.5

7% would recommend to a friend

(83,016 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 83,016 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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1.0
May 29, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Intially the opportunity to serve in what is on the job description is there. The customers are okay to work with and truly have bought into the marketing hype.

Cons

Customers anxiously waiting and hoping for delivery since they are trapped in iron clad contracts that are changed with work orders daily. Code that never works as requested or required with elongated re-delivery dates. No response at escalation points leaving you hanging. Silo's for every division and department. There is a huge lack of leadership but somehow you are left to understand the invisible chain of command making it impossible to be productive. Extremely long hours with mandated weekend work due to poor strategic management and training be prepared to only be reactionary. A real thankless environment. The environment is toxic at this time a minimum of two people are leaving daily. This is not an A level Team. Anyone with options left is leaving. I will resign next week. This is not a healthy or productive environment.

2.0
May 29, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Higher management is approachable Peer conduct is good Onsite opportunities are good, though rapidly diminishing

Cons

No definitive business strategy in some regional operations Executive communication is extremely bad Company growth is given precedence over employee growth Compensation and benefits are one of the worst in the industry

3.0
May 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Job security is good if you are willing to move anywhere in US. 2) Moving expanses are taken care. 3) opportunity for growth is good

Cons

1) Long work hours and Work life balancing is bad due to 2 in a box management concept. 2) Peer pressure due to its growth 3) Compensation is lesser than the job done for any US based company. 4) Long running meetings without proper agenda

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