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Cognizant
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Finance Department
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Nice
No dislike point in working at cognizant
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves International Travel.
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Accounting & Taxation Department
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Foods was nice and tasty
People were sad and nasty
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Service Delivery Department
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Great work culture and behaviour of employees
None
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Digital Marketing Department
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Good place to work
Salaries are low
Digital Operations Department
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The way people are always there for you. They are there for you in every step and guide you throughout.
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Conveyance allowance, Performance incentives
Digital Operations Department
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It is very structured
nothing it is very structured. I am not sure about other teams but mine is
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Accounting & Taxation Department
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Work culture is good and security
I have no any work experience
Work days:Â Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
Accounts finance Department
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Night shift
I am fresher
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Sales & Marketing Department
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The German team worked as a perfect interacting unit.
The Indian structure didn’t match to the US and German one.
Work policy: 2 days travel 2 days office 1 day home
Work days:Â Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves International Travel.
Accounting & Taxation Department
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It is very excellent and branded company .
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Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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As working here is quite good when your manager is cooperative. Though In previous two years work and manager both was good no complaints for them and i worked from home till now and everyone was cool.
Now during current project my so called manager is psycho. Here in cognizant manager also do coding but he is like only I have to do everything and he just wants credit for it. Even to other squads he is like only he is doing work. He oftenly insulted me and two other team mates. I talked with my home manager but no benefit. Only you have to suffer in that scenario.
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DBA / Data warehousing Department
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No good quality need to mention
Terrible experience, lots of politics in case of promotion, onsite opportunity, no salary increment even you have received good rating
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Voice / Blended Department
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Work satisfaction will be negative, up to my view. No words for this company either is it process issue or company issue but at last emloyee is suffering.
Nothing to like here ....
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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I got my H1B visa approved then they put me on bench. They have given very less performance rating just because my H1B got approved. If You need promotion then you have to take release from current project.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work timings:Â Flexible Timings
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Non Voice Department
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Yes less work pressure and employee friendly management I have developed lot of skills working in cognizant
Shift times are not so perfect as shudulled
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Growth and carrier opportunity. Bucket of benefits is adjustable which is good. Quality work and new skills learning opportunity
Work culture is not good. Team size is always minimised. Managers are too demanding. No work life balance
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Working environment in every project differs. My starting project was very well employee friendly. Leave policies are good here.
Some projects do micro management. You will get irritated by management.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Cognizant have lot of job opportunities and provide nice pay according to market standards. People working in cognizant can switch to other technology and work on it.
Hikes are very less when compare to other companies. Due to internal politics talented people efforts are recognised.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
Full Time
Software Development Department
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Work life balance is good. Job satisfaction is also fair. Company pays fair enough. I am not satisfied or I should say I am not impressed with the appraisal procedure implemented by the management. Post 1 year no appraisal at all or the performance bonus. They have their own way of doing it in the month of July or August and it doesn’t matter when you have completed 1 year.
Appraisal and performance bonus payout .
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Procurement & Purchase Department
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Cognizant has strong capebilities in delivering technology services with a robust support. People are satisfied working here but since past couple of years company has not given ample opportunitiesto employees in terms of growth and compensastion
Not good approasal No timely appraisal No promotion policies No standard salary parameters as per exp No benchmarking for compensastion
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Despite the fact that cognizant is not directly involved, the management team is the worst because I had a bad rating once and spoke with my HR about it. She said that it was illogical to claim to be able to speak Hindi, and they do not care about employees. While some employees are excellent, favoritism is a non-issue in the Kolkata office. I will not receive any better senior support that would help me start from scratch....Read More
I can list innumerable dislikes. 1. HR role is not in line with his or her work, and seeing such service from such an MNC, particularly in Kolkata office, truly hurt me. 2. I believe that the best way to force the company to leave on its own volition is through favoritism, which is the most advantageous attack by the poor managementof the Kolkata office. 3. You must look for projects on your own, work hard to earn your rating, and fail every time if you are not a Bengali. 4. No work-life balance; you have to work on weekends and late nights, and as a result, you will be highly appreciated with a very bad rating and feedback. 5. salary is very low and there is no hike or promotion if you are not favourite candidate of your manager...Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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As a fresher learning curve would be Good for a QA fresher - end of the days majorly depends on project and team members
Career switch / career advancement is not possible inside cognizant
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Finance Department
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Cab and shift Allowances Events and cultural activities Work pressure is less Company culture is also good
10 hrs working hours Delay hikes Delay promotions
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Voice / Blended Department
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It was great when I was working as a cognizant employee.. I left the company because of my health care issue. Now I want to rejoin as a cognizant employee.. is it possible ?
I didn't find any dislike from cognizant
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Software Development Department
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Promotion criteria is not at all good. There is lot of discrimination over degree and b.tech education and the promotion eligibility criteria is worst.
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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As such some good projects are there And literally speaking i think like i dont see bigger good things
No proper onboarding No promotions No salry increment No communication Bad manger profile
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Non Voice Department
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Global Opportunities, Career Growth, Innovative Environmen, Diverse and Inclusive Culture, Client Impact These are general aspects that employees often appreciate about working at large technology firms like Cognizant
It's important to note that experiences can vary widely depending on roles, teams, and individual circumstances within any organization, including Cognizant. For a more accurate picture, it's helpful to speak directly with current or former employees about their specific experiences and perspectives.
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Worst work life balance. Complete politics. They just try to fill the seats in office. They expect you to work for 14 hours. And hike will not be according to your work, it's all about politics and friends.
Work policy: Depends on seats available in office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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The project I was working was qatar airways .in that the I had very bad experience from the managerial perspective. It was complete wfo .Everything happens as per his interest.it was never a office culture but rather It was like a school .even checking on dresscode which even the company deosnt insist on. review depends on the office coming time even 10mins delay will be considered as bad mark. It was like torturing ....Read More
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Operations Department
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You'll go school everyday and work for 10hr but your salary will credited for 9hr, high level of micromanagement, you are notified supposed to take leave irrespective of any scenario (Parental leave or even your own family died) they'll convince you to take leave for 2-5days only. Everyday there will be special warning session with management for 1 hrs with whole floor (e.g, if you are not meeting up the target you'll be sacked, etc etc)...Read More
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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