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Cognizant
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Software Development Department
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It's a decent company but at the end everything depends on your project and manager you get.
Nothing as such, just common pitfalls of every service based companies.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Banking Operations Department
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Academy kerning and Bigher education facility
work culture
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Life Science Department
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Work life balance is right here.
Growth opportunities are not so good.
I have supportive team. So it's easier and fun to work.
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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Good Brand name , opportunity to collaborate with different teams
Individual contributions are sometimes overlooked
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Supporting manager. Good work culture.
Nothing.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Slow growth, inefficient and direction less management
Its pretty chill like a government job.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Software Development Department
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They fired me due to COVID
Not a good company to start your career. Probably good for those who have nothing else to do, but slog here.
Your work life would depend upon the team you belong to. It’s very rare that someone would be ambitious to work. I luckily had a great project, but none of my friends liked their work.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
None actually. Honestly, there are no ‘benefits’
IT Department
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It had good culture till 2016, Managers used to treat employees as human being and their junior self. There was fexible working hours. But everything is gone and it is racing other third tier IT companies like TCS, Wipro etc.
1. It has hired ex Wipro people in higher management who are ruining its culture. Even RFP and other ppt will be Wipro template. 2. Earlier there was flexible work hours (no 9 hour mandatory), but now after Wipro senior management, there are many such stone age limitations, lke 9 hours mandatory, 3. Multiple timesheet and other operational tasks to be completed everyweek and failing to do that on friday means penalty in terms of Salary Compensation as if they have hired engineers to fill timesheet and complete other operational tasks only. 4. Cognizant is becoming as crook as wipro and tcs after 2016. 5. Cognizant laid off 25000 resources in 2016-17 and hired incompetent people to make up for workforce. All these bad decisions by ex Wiproite in Higher management. 5. There is no policy for promotion, if manager is from your state he can promote you else you can stuck on same post for 8-10 years. 6. Strong Tamil lobby will take all good opportunities for their own people....Read More
Used to be exciting and innovative, but after Wiproites joined senior management employees have to oblige like slaves. Multiple operational tasks to be done manually that take hours of effort, while side company boast and fools client for Automation.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Stagnant process, lack of technically smart people.
Compensation, team structure
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
AVM Department
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Good People, work-life balance, Learning scopes webniars
Poor compensation, poor management decision, less onsite scope compared to last years
There are projects which work in legacy systems. little scope to work in trending technologies. Newly joined management people decision are very poor are non-employee friendly. Good opportunity is very rare.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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There is nothing in this company, you will find yourself in loop where you see no improvements in you. Biased people around and obviously it depends on projects but manager was horrible and so irritating. I hope you all don’t join this company if you are seeking good future. NEVER JOIN, I REPEAT.
EVERY FCKING THING ABOUT HERE IS HORRIBLE .NO WORK LIFE BALANCE. ASSHxLES.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Nothing. It's a terrible company
Work culture is bad, people don't have manners. Can't talk professionally. No appreciation. A lot of internal politics. As a north indian in South felt decriminated.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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Work life balance is good. If you are looking for a stable job, this is a good place to work.
Cognizant was a great place to work at one time, now there is not much good projects. Not to mention the terrible career growth. Most projec6s are support and operations. You will hardly get any increment in spite of best performance rating.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Flexibility of changing work location, Hybrid culture
Low hikes, unavailability of projects to work on, company is unable to provide good technology and meaningful projects to gain good experience.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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Work culture is good in AI and Analytics team. Lot of opportuinity to learn and grow ,work life balance variea from project to project but in AIA its mostly good in majprity of projects.
Transportation from cognizant dosent covers whole bangalore its a big problem if your are bangalore south travelling to Manyata is a big problem in pkst covid traffic. Perks provided are not adequate cognizant still uses very old parameters to.calculate daily allowances if you work from client office what they offsr niether covers fuel nor food expense.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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IT Support Department
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Software Development Department
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Good
No such thing as of now
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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No hikes no great learning
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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They help grow fast
No job security
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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I like benefits and management also good
No issues
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Software Development Department
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The work life balance is pretty good for me, but again that depends on the project you are into.
Everything was good until the new CEO Ravi Kumar taken over. Promotions are halted, yearly hikes are dropped.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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Good pay and simple payment structure also performance appraisal system is best
Work life balance, pressure job security is a bit of concern
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Corporate Training Department
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I like the current role in the organisation and the company culture
The payment, hikes and promotion for the business support team is below industry standards
Work policy: 8 days a month
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Customer Success Department
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I liked the ambience and my colleagues in my healthcare domain we used to call by names and not by Sir or Madam Cognizant given me when it comes to personal growth
Many things I dislike about Cognizant that is their washrooms were not clean and planetary area. Everywhere there are cockroaches. The management here is good, but favourite ism and in equality among employees was done based on the religion criteria and not everyone was treated fairly not speaking in regional language Taking cooked up meetings when there is any sick leave taken with document’s but not approved by Manager, then it would be considered as LOP. I still remember an escalation was done by me by a behaviour of my SME. But when I mentioned the same to a manager, he stated he will surely look into this and the next moment, I saw him laughing with my Sm. There was no action taken, and this was the only conclusion we got over the same, where that SME even got the warning letter now, Soni is going to be the deal because of inequality...Read More
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Opportunities to learn, security of job
Management will not care about your problems. Salary is low compared to competitors. They'll change your project at September and for year end rating they'll simply say we haven't got chance to fully understand your capabilities as you've recently joined in the project. Every year this loop continues. No matter how hard you work or how many appreciations you get from client. "The more number of days you're in the same LOB, the more rating you'll get." (This is the excuse I've got when I questioned about the rating, despite having multiple client appreciations). This demotivates for sure!...Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Training Team and the way the trainer taught us.
Salary payslip which shows one amount in the payslip and one amount get credited in account of the month December
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Consulting Department
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Being big company generally we get projects after one project finishes. Since last year started to focus on training
No benefit of certifications. Is pure luck to get project on new tech. No one cares for your progress. Only project work matters. Employee benefit are below average.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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The most I disliked is the annual hikes which is just peanuts. They have given 3-5% hikes to all the employees ( 5% was the maximum hike given to the top performers, rest all got 3-4%. Management forced us to work on weekends from office which could have been easily managed from home as no one comes on weekends and feels like I am in graveyard, and the entire bay remains empty.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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As a technical support analyst, your leaves depend on the team. I worked on 3 different teams 1. Large team you have to preplan the leaves minimum 15 days before the start of each month, so it is hard to get leaves for festivals 2. Good manager always approved leaves 3. Can't even imagine to take leave tightly packed roster. Work life balance is good because I was in work from home most of the time. The best part of cognizant is skill development - Free Udemy subscription, Free vouchers for Microsoft, Google, AWS certifications. Also 50% reimbursement for other certifications related to your role. Salary is average, but not much competitive. Culture Depends on the project based on my 3 projects 1. Good 2. Great 3. Worst...Read More
Job security depends on situations. Few of my friends were in bench for more than 6 months, happily receiving salary without joining any project. While one of my friend was dismissed from cognizant because of not reporting to office during bench time. It all depends on the lead., my last project lead is a good man but a bad lead, he is new to cognizant as well. He doesn't even hear your suggestions and made me lose 3 months of night shift allowances worth 18,000...Read More
Work policy: For most days it was work from home. Then they asked to report to office for 3 days, later 2 days and in my last project it was work from home again
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Nothing is interesting about CTS at this point of time
No promotions and partiality based on region especially they do everything for only Tamil people Managers do not consider other region except Chennai and Coimbatore
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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