Little value addition to career graph, too much of dicrepancy between offshore & onsite - Associate Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
Apr 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Better Salary than its peers (in service based section) 2. Some good projects, provided you are lucky enough to join directly theses projects. BU/Job rotation is tough. 3. Peers are mostly good and helpful. 4. If you join as a leteral as business analyst, then you might get good work 5. Good onsite oppertunities.

Cons

1. Management does not take a stand for offshore employees. 2. A lot of projects have donkey work. If you plan to build a career in technical domain, then you need to be really lucky to get that in CTS. 3. WorkLife imbalance. 4. They might take you on good salary, but they average it out over a period of time by very litle increments. 5. HR is not very supportive. Job rotation/transfer is a possibility taking into consideration the size of the organization. But, you need internal contacts for that. HR cannot be trusted for this.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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