Cognizant Process Excellence Team Manager Reviews

Likes

They provide hybrid work culture & location approval as per your need that is the best thing of working in Cognizant.

Dislikes

Here job security is less & those people who were in bench were high chances of layoffs as they don’t get any project.

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

Overall typical service based company, with lower appraisal %, ideal to stay for 3 years max, else growth would be stopped compared to market and you will be in comfort zone.

Dislikes

Appraisal cycle is worst, they do rating in Dec month and release in Jan, but appraisal will be in impact from June salary. Promotion is a problem here, and you will have to cry every year. It takes minimum 3 years once u r at one level to expect promotion.

Likes

Learning scope is good. You have a dedicated platform to explore and learn the skill of your choice at your convenience.

Dislikes

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.

Likes

Growth Opportunities. International opportunities are available for the right individuals

Dislikes

Nothing that I can think off. Salary can be enhanced a little more!!!

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within Country.

Likes

MNC benefits.

Dislikes

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 Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Company is doing g a large expenses on skill development, learning and training.

Dislikes

There is no fix yearly increment cycle .it's every year got change and happy all most 1.5 years..that is a bad and demotivate

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

Work life balance, Work culture and learnings

Dislikes

Appraisal, release before rating and too much dependencies on one location (Chennai). Now no onsite

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good learning at CTS as it provides free Udemy enrollment and lots of sponsor courses and certification

Dislikes

Lake of transparency, bad hike ,job security is main concern even after opening plenty of years.

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

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

Depends on your home manager, some are really supportive. 5-6 hours required from office (depends on the project), rest can be done from home, udemy access, cloud certifications

Dislikes

Salary is too low, only ceo earns good money, exploiting freshers and playing with their careers. They don't have many projects, so most of the time people will be on bench. Promotions are delayed/cancelled based on their convenience citing reasons like utilization is less (common sense- it is less because the company has less projects). Promotions criteria are increased if you satisfy previous required criteria. Hikes are less than peanuts. Company culture is bad, no festival celebration nothing. Work-life balance depends on the project; if you have a project, then you're overloaded with work and if you don't, you're overloaded with stress as they can terminate you anyday. FEW OF THE LATERAL HIREES ARE PUT ON BENCH AND LATER TERMINATED AFTER 6 MONTHS. JOIN ONLY IF YOU WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME AND CAREER....Read More

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

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.

Dislikes

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

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.

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.