Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,810 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 120,810 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.7 stars).

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121K reviews
1.0
Jun 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pros are the people and companies you work with and working with the product.

Cons

management is largly Indian with their Indian culture - they care not about employees or clients. They are pushy and demanding and expect you to have no life outside of work. I worked there for 4 years as a full time perm developer in Core and was laid off with severance when new management. Then again as a contractor for SI for 6 months and no warning when terminated. Same story. Former founder left the company back when things were no longer in his control and since then this company has gone the way of greed.

2.0
May 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Local employees worked well together and supported each other.

Cons

Offices around country work in silos but there is no collaboration across offices or products. If office is not the HQ in CO, you are treated like a second class employee. Healthcare coverage (Wellness plan) is expensive for families as employee pays full cost of office visit. Unlimited PTO means employees are afraid to use it or be labeled replaceable. IT clamps down on approved software that could be used to do job. Once this happened, doing job became much harder. If you found an employee who actually returned your calls or emails from another office, it was a rarity.

1.0
Apr 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not a single good thing found compared to CSC, ORACLE, GE and Other US companies where I worked, led and managed the products and services.

Cons

1. Dominated by south indian tamils especially in the leadership role, do not let any other language person, caste person to enter. 2. No creative thinking, Not a good place for one who has top 3 MBA graduate with secured 15 US patents and built 100+ million dollar revenue. 3. Quality of the Leadership team and internal operational efficiency is simply way below the standard. 4. Casteism, Language exists. Top Management and Senior do not have any leadership abilities, it is a cowardship. 5. You will report to someone who is way below your capability, Cognizant looks at immediate placement to the client, not really focus on candidate's complete potential.

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