Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,812 total reviews)
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Ravi Kumar S

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
1.0
Feb 28, 2023

Incompetent at every level

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Pros

- A semi-good learning and training academy

Cons

Management is full people who have been promoted to their level of incompetency. The culture is absolutely toxic. Management raising voices and talking down to others during meetings, rampant nepotism, zero care for any employees other than checking diversity and inclusion checkboxes. The majority of the workforce is in India and the company only cares about low quality, cheap labor. Professionalism is non-existent for the most part. They also have a stack ranked merit system for annual reviews, which is absolute cancer and proves they don't care about attracting and retaining good talent. I've watched Cognizant acquire companies, promise opportunity, then dismantle them and put everyone out of a job. With 300k employees, you are just a single spend line in a budget sheet. Nothing more, nothing les. Find somewhere else, literally anywhere else to work.

2.0
Aug 31, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good for freshers only and less than 6 years of experience.Good salary at joining as a lateral hire.

Cons

No personal growth. 10% mandatory lowest rating and they will not get any project if is a senior member. Cognizant force them to resign. The performance improvement plan (PIP) is not there and in the name of PIP, they will conduct illegal examination not relevant to technology you worked.T hat's the way they invented now to reduce employee strength. Do not join if you are a senior employee. HR is horrible, often make a false statement. Do not Join Cognizant now if you are more than 10 years experience!!!!!!!! Cognizant invested lot of money recently and hired good lawyer so that they can legally find a way to resign/terminate an employee. You will not get anything except bread and butter !!

1.0
Jul 5, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good onsite oppurtunities; rest everything depends on account to account. Only freshers and dumps at offshore can talk good about company as they dont have the real company.

Cons

No solid control in the organization by top management. Everyone is boss in their own area. High level of politics if you need an accelerated growth. No advance trainings in areas of digital, automation, cloud, etc but ceo only talks about digital in his every mail and videos. Purely, a staffing company. Real cts you will know if you work onsite for a long time.

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