Cognizant reviews

Fresh grads who wish to join Cognizant, please set your expectations right before you join. - Company culture depends on the projects you're allocated. Mostly Indian culture - Classroom training is VERY basic - meant for those with little to no knowledge in programming - E-learnings are mandatory, come with very strong accents. - Bonuses are bare minimal (less than 0.5 months) even with an excellent appraisal - Expect to be thrown into random projects and roles that you did not sign up for as project allocation is 'based on business requirement' - When you do not fit into 'business requirement', be ready to hot desk in the office (aka benched) for a long time - When they assigned you to projects, there are possibilities that you may not be doing what your role should be responsible for (Eg. BA may be doing QE. Dev may be doing BA/RPA) - Sad to say but the grad program is different from others. If you are academically trained in CS or well versed in tech, you can do better at other banks' grad programs that give more attention to their graduates.

Ever since new CEO, there were mass of middle management termination and incremental laid off started causing insecure career and much more rampant silo with knowledge sharing. It basically became, Indian culture oriented company with very little tolerance of US culture open door policy. Especially in engineering side with tight iron-fisted micromanagement with pigeon holed, no innovation but do your tasks only style management. No career advancement communication, no promotion opportunity, not even any salary increase, no incremental PTO earning whatsoever. Pretty much dead end career with just do your tasks and keep your mouth shut. If you there are heavy snow so difficult to commute in, too bad. Be at the office and do your tasks anyway. Not even stupid holiday event catered in event. Total cost saving only company with nothing but strive for achieving Billion dollar company goal oriented company.