Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,812 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 120,812 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
Dec 22, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay Good people on the Team Chance to learn new technology Work from home 1 day a week

Cons

Upper management didn't care (VP level - hosting) Organization seemed out of touch, disorganized, in fact Pushed untested technology into production environment Negative management styles Favoritism from upper management, ignored proper channels of hiring people. Jobs going overseas

1.0
Dec 21, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

International Exposure Good pay package out of B-Schools Competent Technology Managers Relatively better quality of people in mid management

Cons

Promotions are difficult, if not impossible HQ centric and visibility based appraisal Very high rate of attrition Lack of Vision for Business Consulting Underpaid in onsite assignments Corrupt politics among senior managers

2.0
Dec 21, 2010

Internal folks are not recognized.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

1. Strong growth and VP+ leadership team has good vision 2. Stable job 3. you will not get thrown out irrespective of your incompetence

Cons

1. salary is poor for internal folks 2. screwed performance appraisal 3. MBA's are hired to be degraded unless you go to account management or sales 4. get business done at all costs

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