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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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There are no career growth opportunities, you may not get promotion even after 10-15 years on the same position. Middle management is not good and capable and overall lagging the leadership. Compensation is also not decent, its very low as per your experience and skills. No appreciations, no motivation, just paper awards with no monetary rewards. No recognition after long service.
I work as a QA manager handled multiple projects
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Company policies are not transparent. Salary, remunerations are not good. Not employee friendly Skill development process is not good
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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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
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Technology / IT Department
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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.
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.
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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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Technology / IT Department
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MNC benefits.
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 policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Β Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
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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
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IT Support Department
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Work culture is great. There is lot of effort & importance given to training & reskilling.
Pay package is not the best but ifs OK. Even after honestly working with your best efforts & good ratings, you will not get promotion unless you really push for it.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Technology / IT Department
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Cognizant has large number of client in various domains providing a lot of opportunities across the world. I have got an opprtunity to work at different locations and in diversified tools and technologies and various domains. It has helped me build a robust career and helped me grow along with the organization.
Frequently changing revision cycles, changing promotions process and cycles and very less salary hikes. Also for the veteran employees, salary standards are very low compard to the market standards
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Good company culture. Flexible work timings.
Growth will be slow unless you are popular among management and colleagues. There is favoritism and whether you have a good career or not depends on the project you choose. Mentality to please the customers is there everywhere and there is little importance given for individual growth.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Clear salary structure
Micromanagement of work from office Tug of war between Cognizant tasks and client tasks Irregular appraisal cycles Remove senior members from the team and onboard junior members Upper Management creates unnecessary facade to generate fake buzz
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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IT Support Department
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One good thing is they will not touch your job until you're on project.
You need to be girl or manager's assistance to get promotion. Once you come to bench you're all gonee!!
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Non Voice Department
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Working at cognizant really helps me a lot both in personal and professional way .The work life balance & company culture was good and the allowances they provide apart from the salary was excellent...I really enjoyed my 3 years at Cognizant.
One thing I dislike about these companies are there is no guarantee of job security...they will pick 10/15 employees and moved them to different project within the company (internal movement)..which I think is a part of business but needs to be reviewed....
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Business Process Quality Department
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Great process exposure, smooth hiring process, extended work from home tenure during lockdown, good floor environment (colleagues and Aquantances).
Long work hours/ no work life balance, rudest possible SDM - almost held vendetta against the staff (process specific), internal politics and favoritism (process specific),
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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.
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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
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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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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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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
Work days:Β Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Β This is a desk job.
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