Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,885 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 120,885 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
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.

4.0
Jun 5, 2011

Awesome

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very talented management. Great place to work - great colleagues and culture. Good compensation package. Ample latitude.

Cons

Strategic services takes a back seat.

2.0
Jun 3, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible timings Good colleagues trainings are frequent H1B holders are lucky

Cons

Worst management policy Onsite is very difficult Management deceives us for roles & technology Too many false promises Middle level egoistic management is very bad Willing to lose project for their ego Too many associate with less business /technical knowledge Underestimating others capabilities

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