Cognizant Associate Programmer Reviews

Likes

There is nothing I can remember to like

Dislikes

The culture was very bad, there was no work-life balance. The management was not supportive and tremendous rude with employees - Often calling on weekends and nightshifts. Managers used to glorify over work. The environment was like a dungeon. There is no growth for career except those who use to butter managers.

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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.

Dislikes

Appraisal and performance bonus payout .

Likes

Lots of opportunity to learn and upgrade ypur skills

Dislikes

What i feel , as per skills I posses and work I do we defenetly deserve more salary.Salary is in lower side.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

I have been learning new technologies since day one, so learning is never stopped for me after joining cognizant

Dislikes

Cognizant will not pay you well , Even if you are eligible for a better pay at the correct time they will release you from the project so that they don't have to promote you

Likes

I got offer during pandemic as fresher since then I worked remotely which helped me.

Dislikes

The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

I believe working in a company is totally depends on the project team with whom we are working. As per my team experience I don't have any issues with the people and the culture of the company. The teammates and seniors around me are helpful and also the manager is good, he always motivate us to grow more.

Dislikes

Some time when somebody need to change their work location for the clients need then company should provide sufficient facilities which company does not provide, this is something which is unexpected.

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N/A

Dislikes

Bad company culture Slave system Compulsory WFO for 5 days a week 3%hike that too delayed by 6 months Toxic Managers Useless HRs Hired us through campus placements as programmer analyst and gave us service desk role. No training was provided by company and cheated us . We were around 1000+ who got the same support roles after being selected as programmer analyst from campus.

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

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

Dislikes

Not good approasal No timely appraisal No promotion policies No standard salary parameters as per exp No benchmarking for compensastion

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Few process are very good he help u lot in your growth some process will pull you down and make you feel as you fit for nothing

Dislikes

Culture there no proper Hr for each and every process there would be no Hr meetings no Fun activity more over there in team they call our senior or manger head teams anna which is worst

Likes

Work life balance is good

Dislikes

Ravi Kumar the new CEO of the company has changed multiple policies which directly affects the employee benifits. No promotions, no proper salary hike.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Cognizant has its strengths, but I feel there's room for improvement in several areas beyond just salary. For me, the overall experience hasn’t aligned with my expectations.

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In my personal experience, I have faced challenges with the lack of qualified managers and team leads. For instance, in our team, we work from different locations, and our team lead rarely conducted regular team huddles. Even when I, as a senior, tried to take responsibility and initiate meetings, he would often find reasons to stopor postpone them. Over the course of the year, he connected with the team only four or five times, which was far from adequate for effective team collaboration. Additionally, my manager has been disconnected from the team for over a year. When he first joined during a critical transformation period, he did not take the time to observe the team members' expertise, interests, or long-term goals. This lack of involvement left us feeling unsupported and undervalued. One major concern was the cultural bias I experienced. Being from Chennai and a Tamil speaker, I noticed a clear difference in how I and others like me were treated compared to team members from Hyderabad, particularly Telugu-speaking colleagues. This disparity in treatment created a sense of alienation and made it difficult to feel like a cohesive part of the team....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Cognizant offers a wide range of career paths in IT, consulting, and business process services, which can be appealing to professionals looking to grow their careers.

Dislikes

The work hours used to affect my work life balance and I feel that salary increments and promotions are slower compared to competitors.

Likes

Nothing, meets zero expectations. Made work like hell even during my maternity journey 24 hrs and with pretty worst monetary benefit. There was no work life balance and also I was forced to resign with no other option saying you cannot continue with your old role or team a month back when I was just about to join after ML.

Dislikes

Poor work-life balance, no salary hike, no benefits, no proper ratings, general shift has no timings it is round the clock.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

It is the best company to work as a Tester. You will be recognized and respected for the contributions you do for project and client.

Dislikes

Ratings are provided based on opinion of others rather than the performance of an individual for whole year. And hikes are automatically affected because of this.

Work Details

Work policy: Im not sure

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

I don't like anything about cognizant worst work culture with worst growth and they follow hire and fire policy please don't go for this company.

Dislikes

I dislike everything like work culture and job security.

Work Details

Work policy: 5 days/week from office from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

If you have good project, you getting everything. Good team, good appraisal, job security and all.

Dislikes

if you in bench, HR will torture you to put resignation within one month. also you have no option to choose project and select anything worst comes to you. no proper shift allowances will provided. they have zero 0% for mental health 100% for work.

Work Details

Work policy: recently changed to 5 days office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.