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I have been working here since 2017 and work culture is very productive and professionally satisfied in cts. Career growth and opportunities are very good amount and cts learning portal is awesome where you can easily fulfils and get any skillset you wanna have. I always want to continue working with CTS.
I havent found any such thing in cts to put it over here.
It is interesting, i got the training at the beginning and now i am playing over here after learning on this job. I got a chance to wear multiple hats and that really helped me to understand to get a taste of different roles.
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Good work environment and culture.
No dislikes
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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First month company gave some incentive, then after two months several allowances were stopped. Condition it terrible
Very little to no up-skilling, depends on manager Middle management is worst, can't expect any help from them
Poor
Work days:Β Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
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I worked as a contractor, their is no recpect for them
Work days:Β Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
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Hiring process is too long
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Cognizent is very much knowledge growing company
No dislike in cognizent
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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Comfortable to work
Salary was low since I was with cts for 10 years, and they have made 10 hours working which was difficult to balance the work life who have children s
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Good work environment and culture. Management ppl will be very supportive and encouraging
No concern while working in cognizant
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Work environment and we have 100% Job security on the basis of our performance
Full of politics, Management is not good on several projects
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Bad appraisals, strict wfo policy because of which you will get stuck during big emergencies, strict promotional criterias, low salary for entry level, not sure about higher level people
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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Despite the fact that cognizant is not directly involved, the management team is the worst because I had a bad rating once and spoke with my HR about it. She said that it was illogical to claim to be able to speak Hindi, and they do not care about employees. While some employees are excellent, favoritism is a non-issue in the Kolkata office. I will not receive any better senior support that would help me start from scratch....Read More
I can list innumerable dislikes. 1. HR role is not in line with his or her work, and seeing such service from such an MNC, particularly in Kolkata office, truly hurt me. 2. I believe that the best way to force the company to leave on its own volition is through favoritism, which is the most advantageous attack by the poor managementof the Kolkata office. 3. You must look for projects on your own, work hard to earn your rating, and fail every time if you are not a Bengali. 4. No work-life balance; you have to work on weekends and late nights, and as a result, you will be highly appreciated with a very bad rating and feedback. 5. salary is very low and there is no hike or promotion if you are not favourite candidate of your manager...Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Promotion criteria is not at all good. There is lot of discrimination over degree and b.tech education and the promotion eligibility criteria is worst.
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As such some good projects are there And literally speaking i think like i dont see bigger good things
No proper onboarding No promotions No salry increment No communication Bad manger profile
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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The project I was working was qatar airways .in that the I had very bad experience from the managerial perspective. It was complete wfo .Everything happens as per his interest.it was never a office culture but rather It was like a school .even checking on dresscode which even the company deosnt insist on. review depends on the office coming time even 10mins delay will be considered as bad mark. It was like torturing ....Read More
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I am not recommend for freshers to join in this organisation if u don't have any other option u choose this by u r own risk and u don't know what stack u get even though u get a good stack u r not sure u will work in the trained stack and after 18 months completion mostly they released the fresher from the project moved to bench once u complete 2 years if u don't have project they are asking for forced resignation...Read More
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Their training program is good
After giving training in academy, there are lot of irregularities in project allocation. Joiners have to wait for 1-6 weeks for projects and also some problems after that. They also don't allow them to report from home during this waiting period (where they are just sitting idle for days).
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Software Development Department
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nothing much on got the internet reimbursement while being deployed on project
once you get tagged to project there is no coming out of it. NO ONE WILL HELP YOU OUT, HR WON"T REPLY
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Work from home culture until corona.
No work life balance, no promotions in time, no hard work appreciate, not a good salary at all, not even the basic needs fulfill.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Cognizant policy and benifits was good.
Partiality, Lake support from your current supervisor when you release from any project you have to interview again many times, location was also the main concern since lake of opportunity in North.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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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.
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Healthcare process -:Management is racist, womaniser. Regional language (marathi) is not allowed on floor. Wherein management will speak Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malyali languages which is not regional according to them. Even if company is in Pune Maharashtra they strictly inform not to speak in marathi as management is not Maharashtrian.If they hate marathi language why are they living in Maharashtra , they should go to their native State. Promotion are only for female employes, lickers ππ chatus and for others who bring π₯πΊ for management. Leaves are given only to favourite emp. Even if medical documents are submitted they will apply NCNS. People who are issued warning letter for abusing on floor, fighting on floor are given promotion as they are favourite,lickiers ππchatus. Management has created there own family on floor which includes bhai, behne, bhabhi, devar, jeth, jethani, nand, soutan and Big Daddy. Management needs full gossip of every employe. Management watches reels and do videos call on floor and says mobile is not allowed to employees. Favouritism is the policy followed by management. Markdowns will be reverted only for favourite and lickers ππ chatu employees. False hopes given to retain employees. Personal grudges are kept if u don't become slave of the management....Read More
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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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
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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
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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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Technology / IT Department
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Work from home and they don't put you in multiple projects paralalley
In the name of annual increament all you get is peanut and that too 6 months delayed.
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Software Development Department
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No recognition No satisfactory work No onsite opportunity if you are not south Indian Poor bonus Poor increment They won't even provide a cup to let you drink water
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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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
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Operations, Maintenance & Support Department
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We can enjoy the company of colleagues in the beginning as a fresher.
Hike and the ratings are absolutely worse as they compare with your peers and downgrade stating as normalisation. I got downgraded twice and was told both the times as next time will take care but useless. Absolutely zero appreciation of hard work here. Max 2 years and then switch.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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As a fresher learning curve would be Good for a QA fresher - end of the days majorly depends on project and team members
Career switch / career advancement is not possible inside cognizant
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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