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Cognizant
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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All except salary hikes and appraisals
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Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Specially for Kolkata Cts: Entire year they will mentally torture you to work more than 11 hrs by threatening of Ratings.When you ask for cab they will give you silly reason to not take cab. At the time of Appraisal month they will islolate you like you are from some other place. Suppose you are lucky enough to get a human being(very unlikely in Cts) who gave you average rating ,then his/ her manager will come into picture and suddenly before the date of release of rating , your supervisor will change and he will degrade your rating to lowest that is no increment citing some weird reason.So that you get stuck and his favourites will get promotion and onsite. HR is a puppet of Managers , even if you ask anything , manager will come to know , next day he will enquire with you why did you went to HR. Company policies are joke , HR says ask your manager for promotion policy and manager says ask HR. You will feel like you are in Govt bank office moving from one counter to another. Learn the local language because English is secondary here they send jokes to important information in local language, and meetings are in local language only even if you ask your query in English. For Certifications Managers will distribute coupon secretly to favourates or lickers who doesn't want to do that and at end it expires. You keep on asking they will make false promise of giving coupons in next quarter. For further information join CTS Confession page in fb....Read More
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Excel sheet work
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
Insurance Department
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The company is good and open for innovations. I love the policies and benefits of cognizant technology solutions. Work culture and ambiance is good. Team members and staffs are also good.
Compensation is decent but growth is too slow. The desire to work or change domain or project is not at all flexible. Mangers do not listens to the problems or convenience of the employee. Flexibility to change the location of work is not good. Onshore opportunity is very less. Mangers do not give opportunity to talents rather they prefer one who is good at flattery. Managers are so mean that they try to ruin your carrier by not releasing you from the project so that you cannot up-skill yourself. Mangers also do not motivate or support for any external certification or to learn new skill....Read More
Work timings:Â Flexible Timings
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Testing Department
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Overall it's good experience as working with cognizant though I worked entirely from client location
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Exciting
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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The liking depends on project to project, people to people.
Politics, Ratings & Raise, Micro-management
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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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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Software Development Department
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Flexibility in location and timings Too many learning opportunities
Depends lot on project and people Work life balance Salary and increments
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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It's about the connectivity to the city,the office habitat culture and the work space it's quite good which creates a good place to work.
In terms of work life balance cognizant doesn't do anything it's only depends on your client and in cognizant benching is the factor which makes your job in non securable here.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Engineering Department
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I don't like working in this company. I just don't have any other options left.
What's there not to dislike. Biggest issue is that there's no HR to raise ur concerns to. All they have is a portal and that too just for show.
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within Country.
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Software Development Department
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Good working culture among similar service based company. CTC is straight forward almost like a product based company where fixed component is more and variable component is less Good team and good development projects compared to support projects in other companies Good work life balance
Hikes and promotion are not good. Recent policy changes are not employee friendly Golden days of Cognizant over once Francisco D’Souza tenure as CEO ended
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
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Software Development Department
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Stability is good. Though in the ongoing global recession, many of my co-workers had to leave projects because of project ramp down and did not get any other projects. Instead of recruiting employees from bench in other projects they are hiring more from people outside.
Appraisal is bad. So joining with low salary does not help much in the long run, better to switch.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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IT Consulting Department
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Work depends upon what project you get. Had a chance to work on a small project from scratch.
Work timings are pathetic. You work at your regular timings and still have to login later for client calls. In my case mostly extending till midnight. The hybrid culture here is totally unproductive. Upper management is worse, expects you to be available anytime for calls.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Training and certification in multiple topics
Too many certification and training Too many meetings Extended working hours Promised role as data scientist but it involves mostly data engineering and cloud/deployment staffs
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Banking Operations Department
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There are multiple projects
The list is endless. Poor management of accounts. They give importance only to clients but not to resources. Resources are treated like third class citizens. Lots of micro management in certain projects. Scrum masters are the biggest culprits in certain projects, they say they are backing the resources but they keep trying to impress only the clients. In order to impress the clients they put lots of pressure on the resources....Read More
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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I want to see super stupid leadership you can join cognizant. There is nothing any work life balance. no rule
There is nothing any rule.leadership don't know about agile. when they got project you have to work day and night.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â 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:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within Country.
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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:Â 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:Â 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:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Non Voice Department
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The job role is fine.
Work culture is not good at all all, full of toxicity and politics. I was a fresher and my first experience is not good. I would never refer someone to work here atleast not a fresher.
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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