Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,839 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 120,839 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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1.0
Mar 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Gain good skills in next gen data centers.

Cons

If you were acquired don't expect your same bonus structure. We received an email bonuses would be 30 to 40% higher depending on performance but still we have seen better bonuses in the TriZetto bonus plan. Company is mostly geared toward South Indians running it. Your old management will be replaced sooner than later. US Immigration should truly investigate this company and find out why so many Americans have been replaced by H-1B holders. We used to outnumber them and now they are at least at 50% in the Englewood, CO office.

2.0
Jan 14, 2018

Was great until Cognizant took over

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Before Cognizant took over, TriZetto was a great place to work, with bright minds, new ideas and high levels of talent all across the board. This has unfortunately dissipated since integration.

Cons

Since integration, it has been a sinking ship, with long serving employees leaving and others being “benched” and eventually laid off due to Cognizant’s heavy outsourcing while there is no backfilling due to Cognizant’s “policy.” This has led to an atrocious work/life balance for everyone still left and nobody from Cognizant seems to care. There is zero regard for employee satisfaction.

1.0
Apr 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. Absolutely none unless you are a Tamilian.

Cons

1. It is a tamil company with all the top management who are tamilians. 2. Official meetings, team activities and daily work will be communicated in tamil ONLY. 3. All the opportunities such as promotion, onsite, rewards, recognition are strictly for tamilians. 4. You are not supposed to complain about this, for which you get a common reply - learn tamil. 5. Higher management is mostly tamilians and would exploit and stigmatize people of other languages. 6. HR feedbacks, skip level meetings are but USELESS. Its not confidential and you would be even reprimanded then and there. 7. Tamil people will get the top bucket even though they are worthless. They will be sent onsite saying they have the right skills. HR people reply for this is 'ýou should have faith in the system'. 8. Middle level management is the worst who ruin your career, exploit, defame and undervalue your work. Managers who don't even know the technology would be judging your work. 9. Tamilians would get the easy work while the other people would be burdened with heavy workload. 10. Innovation will not be recognized for people of other language. Managers, Leads are the worst people I have worked so far. They lack the skills, knowledge. You should be writing the code or logic for them to understand not something innovative. 11. Senior Management conduct some Innovative workshops and would reward tamilians alone.

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