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Cognizant
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They have allowed working from home to support company clients.
I dislike is politics, HR has no ethics as they do what the SVP, VP and AVP says. All top bosses keep their bosses happy by over burdening work on resources at lower level like Manager, Sr. Manager, Associate Director. They make them work over all weekends during COVID19 situation by warning then that things are really bad in the company. The resources work 13 hours a day on weekdays and 6 hours a day on weekends during COVID19 work from home situation, no thank you emails till date. No back up is available.. Pathetic situation. Top bosses have forgotten service delivery, only thing they talk about is revenue and margin which may secure their job for next 6 months...Read More
Managing portfolio of customer accounts in terms of Service Delivery.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Software Development Department
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Since the India head quarters is based out of Chennai, the company culture is average but working with teams is a good experience. More Innovation, more the automation. Client visits are taken very seriously. Escalation management is best.
India head quarters are based out of Chennai, there is no focus of developing delivery centers in north and west India. This company only focuses on developing south locations but the actual talent is available in North, east and West India. Companies like Accenture, TCS , ATOS, CAP Gemini, Wipro, Infosys, etc. Have their large bases in Mumbai, pune, gujarat which is helping them to get innovative talents which is not for doing monotonous jobs....Read More
I am Associate Director - Service Delivery in Retail Vertical.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Technology / IT Department
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Learning scope is good. You have a dedicated platform to explore and learn the skill of your choice at your convenience.
Promotion cycle/criteria changes recently adopted (Internal Job Moves) - allowing supervisors to promote the resources to next level without a specific criteria. This is creating official platform for favourability.
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Back Office Department
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Growth Opportunities. International opportunities are available for the right individuals
Nothing that I can think off. Salary can be enhanced a little more!!!
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within Country.
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Software Development Department
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Cognizant has hybrid work model, which is good for employees.
Cognizant bench policy is bad, they give less days to get yourself into a project. Also salary hike is low.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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Ample of learning opportunities if you are willing to take it. Good work life balance in general. Good culture. Leadership if open to hearing employees issues and support them as possible.
Salary is lower compared to other firms.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Technology / IT Department
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MNC benefits.
Authoritative Leadership, Office politics, Biased opportunities and performance reviews. Forced attrition. Insurance policy is not good. Delayed hikes and promotions, Extended work hours due to hybrid work policy. Pets take most of the perks unless you work so hard that they have to share some. However, these are most common things that you will come across all IT companies. Just learn to survive, upskill and excel. Do not depend on your job or salary, have multiple streams of income without moonlighting and switch jobs whenever you get a good opportunity. Work for your own success not for the company....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
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Health Informatics Department
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No job security at all . You will be laid off without prior intimation. Toxic work culture
No job security at all. You will be laid off at any time . Toxic work culture from higher management.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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IT Security Department
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It may vary project to project and management to management. My previous project experience is very bad due to the management only. My current project , client and management is quite good.
There is no skip level meeting happens and I found HRs are already teamed up with the management.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Here HR’s don’t even listen to our problems. When we need help from HR’s they don’t even respond to our messages or mail but when they need something from us they directly call us. Here, TMP team will say you will get project but when our bench time ends they force us to take up service desk projects by lying you can change projectafter 6 months. They treat us like we are some garbage and they quickly want to throw us in some garbage pot. These service desk project team leads are uneducated, don’t know how hiring happens. They will very much pressure and workload....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Customer Success Department
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They don't have stability in job, start looking other opportunities when yous joined cognizant
they can fire you anytime. Manager the different level of attitude. One of the trainer her name is Shreya singh was using for associate such terms "you f""king people you can't do anything. hr will not listen you also if I'll allow to fire, they will not think even. After complaints with SDL. Senior donot have any positivity and understanding.
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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I like Cognizant it's give hybrid work model and not pressure to work from office on daily basis.
Appraisal not happens as per our expectations and no any party organized .
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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it's good environment working in cognizant it's good work life balance and overall good experience
i request to please improve management like manager team leader because not good behaviour to junior
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Learning Platform (Udemy) Free Cloud Certification Work from home Work life balance Get leaves easily
No job security. You will be ask to leave or resign by taking lump sump amount. No retention policy. Fake job postings on TMP. Biasing on the basis of gender. No meaning of Full time employee. No projects for PA or fresher. They will keep u for 18 months project then on bench, after that back to home.
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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Good I like that there are good projects available. If you get that great you will get experience and knowledge.
1. Salary and hikes are low. 2. Poor employee welfare activities, once a year they take you out for team lunch. If you missed then nothing, no gifts, abs nothing, saving so much money but gives back nothing.
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Health Informatics Department
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Cognizant will be give you access to Udemy and many more other platforms from which you can do any courses for free of cost and level up yourself.
While in working with Cognizant you have to forget your work life balance because you will be forced to worked more than 10 11 hours daily and If you don't, threat of laying off will be given to you through your TL and managers
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Health Informatics Department
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So far, i do not see any good experiences in terms of ratings, feedback, employee friendly, personal/family related concerns. Just getting pathetic treatment from all sides due to north indian culture and having personal concerns of location preference as bangalore. Always critised for the opportunity they provided like they have given what is not expected as employer. It seems like the employment is chargeable and costs my whole life in chennai only then I deserve to be a right candidate to work in their project. Seniors and HCM managers mostly lack of proper response and fair treatment in terms of opportunities, assignments, consideration, knowledge sharing, project experiences, personal concerns, ratings, feedback and support....Read More
Not feeling good due to consistently forced to change project and degrade ratings. Always denied for preferred location project even after 6 years of work experiences within cognizant. Did not get full exposure and work experience of the study in the project since I am not working as per their location preferrence. HCM managers are only utilising me for their work completion but never support about the personal concern. Mostly tamil managers are sucking the career of North Indian resource and never support since I have location constraints and requested to work from bangalore location. Tamil managers always wanted me to not to work from bangalore location unnecessarily which is very unfair. Not getting proper response and very badly treated by hcm managers or lead within project. This company just looking outside fine but inside it there is hell amount of unfair practices within projects in life science domain. Always critised for not being able to come to Chennai and got the average or poor ratings along with project release....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, Travel Within Country.
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Operations Department
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Having a job
Too many things to dislike. Zero transperancy in their hiring. Nodal point transport which can be anywhere from 2-5 km radius. 10 hrs shifts and with cab travel, it's 14 hrs shift. Rapid hire and fire company. You get no compensation and have 30 days to find a new job.
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Software Development Department
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It's MNC so work load is not much and you get nice architecture office and locality
They lay off when they don't have projects. They are over hired and less projects left with them.. you won't feel the pain but they will somehow kick you out if they don't need you... they might give you salary for 2 or 3 months to keep the mouth shut but they will lay off you silently
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IT Consulting Department
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Anand from global large deals team.
Few members of the global large deals team are worse. Priya raghav and Ashwini rathore doesn't know how to talk to people. Ashwini even talked about my family very rudely. I would suggest don't join cognizant. Even if you join, don't join the global large deals team. Your life will be miserable.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Job security is good. Visibility to top management
It is like any other top MNC culture wise but the management is chaotic especially in the project i am working. There are too many people following up on work and too less people handling the work
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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General Insurance Department
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Many employees have said that cognizant offers a variety of great benefits. As an employee, you get full medical coverage, full dental coverage, full vision coverage, and decent paid time off. benefits are a good way for business to take care of their employees and boost morale. This is important because if a company's employees are taken care of the employees will take care of the company.
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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