Cognizant reviews

3.5

7% would recommend to a friend

(83,004 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 83,004 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
3.0
Aug 25, 2023
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Pros

Good place to start out or get back into an IT career in the US Health benefits - good choice and low cost Generous paid leave with vacation, sick, jury & bereavement categories Lots of training & positions with travel available Work at client sites that include many Fortune 100 corps and household name tech companies

Cons

Compensation is below average for most positions (the ones that actually bring in the revenue) Bureaucratic & confusing review & promotion practices Pay raises are based on subjective, esoteric and nonsensical parameters instead of performance Industry leading turnover per position Industry & client experience has been a mixed bag with Cognizant, some prefer to put client site as our experience rather than Cog on our resume. Lives up to all the stereotypes in "If you can't do, teach, and if you're totally clueless, manage."

2.0
Jun 6, 2023

Soulless

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Pros

I was part of Magenic who was acquired by CSV in 2021. Note that there is no positive mentioned here.

Cons

Everything I have to say will be relative to Magenic, but Magenic was a great place to work, with lots of cool and smart and down to earth people. All of the managers told us to sit tight, that things wouldn't change- which of course they were given direct orders to spread that messaging, because part (all) of being acquired when you are in consulting, is that you're really acquiring a labor force. We don't produce anything- consultants themselves are the product. Hindsight is 20/20, but of course came the day that the acquisition was fully sealed, and that very morning the bloodletting happened- all of the C-suite and a number of well-liked managers were immediately severed. Morale dropped. People fled. I was one of them. Gossip on the street says that CSV high leadership themselves were in hot water for one reason or another. Maybe they were too busy dealing with that, but it never really felt like we were part of any organization once Magenic was washed away. A strange limbo. So, not the worst of situations, but also life is too short to just continue to sit at an organization that feels like an absentee parent.

1.0
May 5, 2023
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Pros

COGNIZANT USA is a good company but was created to provide jobs for INDIANS not AMERICANS, the majority in the company are Indians, company is a hub to import Indian labor to US, not fair for sure, so if you are a original American not Indian forget about Cognizant they will not hire you, also if they hire you, you will not last for long, job security for Americans is pretty low at Cognizant, they have a deployment pool for projects but if after a month you don`t find a project they will let you go.

Cons

Already explained in the PROS, USA department of labor needs to regulate more the gap for Indian positions, so far in USA they are too many, and also with very poor degree from India not comparable to USA universities.

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