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Health Informatics Department
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Good sallery for freshers and health benefits also good
No Work-life balance in my project
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Department
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Pharmacovigilance Department
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Good work culture, For Freshers a good start.
Shifts in some projects
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Pharmacovigilance Department
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Projects are good
Politics is there friends got immediate promotions
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Pharmacovigilance Department
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Teammates were good, gave enough training period.
No work-life balance, too much stress, micromanagement, very less appraisal. Did not give enough leaves even if sick.
Hectic and no flexibility.
Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Drug Safety Department
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Life sciences Department
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Free coffee
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Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Digital Marketing Department
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I am getting salary is the only good thing here. Also, if you keep working as per your toxic manager without putting anything to change or any other demand. You can work here for a long.
Work-life balance is worst: As we do not get leaves even on the most auspicious festivals even if it is Holi, Diwali or any national festival. Skill development: Very unsatisfactory as we never came across any management who discusses such things. Wo don't even get time to complete the mandatory training. We only skip videos and usethe answer that our management shares to pass the trainings. Company culture: There are some good managers and team leads out there but most of them doesn't seema to create a good culture. They only know how to spread toxicity and tourcher people. Even for one day leave or any emergency they behave like the clouds will come on the ground. Promotion: This doesn't happens generally with those who really work hard and giving their 100 percent The organisation and HR should connect individuals to know about such situations and take some hard decisions to fix them....Read More
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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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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Digital Marketing Department
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As a whole cognizant is excellent. They provide excellent skill development.
At Hyderabad location a manager called sankalp is very rude and very miss behaved person and a manager called simran they both handle google projects since they both are friends. They have favouritism in them very worst managers because of them many employees drop. And cognizant is loosing its name.
Work policy: No hybrid structure all 5 days there was wfo.
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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Competitive Salary offered to lateral joiners. Work life balance is good but yes it depends on project to project.
Promotions are very less here
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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Better work-life balance after Covid. High learning curve and standards Environment would be better when compared with other tech giants
Promotion cycle Hike
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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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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IT Consulting Department
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1. salary do not have varaibale component. 2. Co-workers are good.
1. Low job security 2. Forcing people to work from office(ODC) 3. Mostly support projects 4. Very low transparency with poor management 5. Work satisfaction is very average
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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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: 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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I appreciate Cognizant's strong emphasis on innovation, learning, and career growth. The company provides excellent opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and global clients, which helps employees gain valuable industry exposure. Additionally, Cognizant fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment, encouraging teamwork and continuous learning.
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Other Department
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I have started as fresher, so learning process was good. They gave good training period to learn the things.
Work-life balance was zero in this company which led to struggle personal life.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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HR Operations Department
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Co-workers, Transport service
Management, Cross functional Skill development, micro management, Company rules and ethics, promotion opportunities, Regional bias, Employee Grievance handling.
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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Non Voice Department
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Overall good company,If you work very well means you got promoted,I worked very well and I got promoted within one year to another position.I learnt so many things. overall it was a good experience.Job security is very much appreciable.Company culture is appreciated.
Nothing ,my first company, it gave good experience only to me.
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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this company sucks
this company is working like a mini south India and neglect the people from north and avoid giving promotions and keep all controls and power in their hand. upper management treats employees like labourers and exploit them by extending work hours , timsesheet , work from office and no WFH any day. also unnecessary escalations
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Premium courses are available at free of cost. Offers free certifications. My manager always support me at any time.
Need to work more than 11 hrs a day. No allowance for weekend support. there's no cab facility. Less insurance amount. Very very less annual hike (1 % to 5%) There are no dine out programs and team building activities. Always work work work. Sometimes need to work on weekends too. Promotions are very tuff. Ps: this is my project experience
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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Service Delivery Department
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Opportunities for professional development through a variety of ongoing training sessions and educational programs The company operates with integrity and focuses on values that promote both personal and professional success
High level of autonomy in decision-making.
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Operations Support Department
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The company has a solid track record of growth, offering job security and longterm stability for its employees The company fosters strong team relationships, making it a pleasant and motivating place to work every day
Employees are empowered to make decisions and contribute to the company’s success. Provides opportunities to work on exciting and impactful projects.
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Customer Success Department
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Cab Service is Good.
I've been working since 2016 and joined Cognizant in 2021. I've had the worst experience of my entire Professional career working here. I was in Service Desk Department of TJX Project and the managers (esp. Sourav Singh & Mainak Sarkar) would misbehave with everyone at every instance. Same goes for SMEs (Sonali Menon & Manisha Kar).These guys didn't even had to crack an interview to get the positions all thanks to the Senior Associate Deepak Kumar Singh who turns blind eye at every atrocities employees face there. They run the project like a Gram Panchayat Office while discriminating on the basis of Religion and Caste....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Work culture is good, work life balanceand work environment is good and job security and skills development
No hike for salaries
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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Company culture is too chil & good ( depends on respective Project) Working hours are flexible Hybrid mode is followed
Promotion policy is very worst that you can never seen in any organisation. The rules for promotion is very pathetic and also those Manager/ HR are not ready to give promotion even if we eligible. They will simply positioned to another cycles Job security is poor and termination will become a casual word in the organisation
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Operations, Maintenance & Support Department
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The night shift allowance, 6th day allowance is better than some other organizations.
Many things, toxic office politics, unpaid overtime, over-the-top cost-cutting practices, slow growth, biased ratings, code of conduct malpractice, biased regionalism, fraudulent HR practices etc.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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