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Cognizant
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BD / Pre Sales Department
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Pros Work life balance Good culture Team support Cons Salary growth promotions new leadership isn’t able to handle Cognizant. Company was way better earlier not now unfortunately
Salary Hikes Promotions Non supportive Manager Lack of guidance and learning skills
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
BD / Pre Sales Department
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Compensation and Variable
Culture, Management, Work-Life Balance, People giving Sales people more weight age, People not ready to come back from onsite,not giving chance to other people
Bid Management and Proposal Management Activities, Managing Client Visits
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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The work which we do is good but the work atmosphere is challenging and management does not takes care of the employee growth
Compensation , Promotion Cycle and Management
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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BId Management
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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They provide hybrid work culture & location approval as per your need that is the best thing of working in Cognizant.
Here job security is less & those people who were in bench were high chances of layoffs as they don’t get any project.
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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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 Consulting Department
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In some departments people (especially managers) don't even respond. And forget about HRs, they'll address your queries once ina blue moon.
I dislike the stubborn culture. They take feedbacks and then drain them through the gutter.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Management Consulting Department
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Work life balance. They have multiple clients and projects.
The appraisal process is not good. They are using the bell curve. That promotes mediocrity . They have multiple projects but they deploy you as per their convenience not as per your profile or preference.
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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Product Management - Technology Department
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There will be plenty of scope to learn and improve yourself. You'll definitely go to different heights if you manage to stay here for few years and move out.
1. Do not expect much salary hikes. Even well performing employees have received less than 10% in the last 2 years.. 2. Do not expect promotions.
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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IT Consulting Department
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Cognizant is on a right track in terms of Work culture and Employee satisfaction
Leadership should connect frequently with associates to build a career path.
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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Software Development Department
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- Work pressure is less
- Everyday there is a threat of job loss - No infrastructure support, but strictly looking into return to office - Work process and environment is very bad - There is no project party. Most of the parties are self paid - Client people are from India. Their behaviour are very bad. Behaving like bonded labours - Higher mgmts are just watching who is coming to office or not - There are not enough options of the projects...Read More
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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IT Consulting Department
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I don’t know in which era the owners are living in, where they think giving 5 days of paternity leaves are more than enough. I think they feel that father has nothing n absolutely no contribution in child birth and care. That celebrate pride month for a month but paternity leave is for 5 days. Horrible
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Teams are supportive and enough manpower is available for project management departments. Work is linear and outcomes are well estimated with realistic expectations from upper management. More opportunities are provided for an individual's upskilling. Additionally, opportunities in the bench pool are ample to explore new roles/tech.
Departments run without cohesive org structure; few teams are reinventing the wheel with the same routine work.
Work days: Monday to Friday
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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IT Consulting Department
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Very good culture especially if you are part of BFS business consulting group. Ample learning opportunities. You just need to have the zealth to learn. Lots of opportunities to work on asset building, business dev apart from usual client work.
Really low salaries Appraisal is also low Forcing work from office now even if client does not require same
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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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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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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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.
I dislike everything like work culture and job security.
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.
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Service Delivery Department
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If you have good project, you getting everything. Good team, good appraisal, job security and all.
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 policy: recently changed to 5 days office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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DevOps Department
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I would like to highlight team culture, company campus, leave polices and many more.
Promotion, partiality for Promotion and work accommodation.
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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Technology / IT Department
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It's waste... Very partiality management's. No Job security. Very Dangerous zone.... Very worst... Not recommended
Partiality management's... Whoever favor that person only growing
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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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Lots of opportunity to learn and upgrade ypur skills
What i feel , as per skills I posses and work I do we defenetly deserve more salary.Salary is in lower side.
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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Technology / IT Department
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It offers various learning opportunity.
There are people work under practices, each practices operate differently. No timely promotions. When a person get released pressuring to get resigned.
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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Software Development Department
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I have been learning new technologies since day one, so learning is never stopped for me after joining cognizant
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
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Service Delivery Department
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Auto Promotion seems to be a good thing however, I didn't get it as I am completely 2 years with organization
No HR representative transperancy to contact, I thought that every employee tries to avoid the risk from doing the task
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Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC Department
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COGNIZANT HAS FREE UDEMY ACCESS THROUGH WHICH I LEARNT MANY TECHNOLOGIES. IT HAS BOTH PERMANANT WORK FROM HOME AND HYBRID WORKING MODEL AS PER THE REQUIREMENT OF AN EMPLOYE.
NOTHING.
Work policy: SOMETIMES IT WORK FROM HOME AND SOMETIMES ITS FROM OFFICE.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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