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: 1. **Diverse Opportunities:** Cognizant offers a range of projects across various industries, which can help employees gain diverse experience and develop new skills. 2. **Career Growth:** The company emphasizes professional development with training programs, certifications, and career advancement opportunities. 3. **Global Presence:** Working with clients and teams around the world provides a broad perspective and the chance to engage in international projects. 4. **Work-Life Balance:** Many employees find that Cognizant promotes a healthy work-life balance with flexible working arrangements. 5. **Innovative Environment:** The company encourages innovation and stays at the forefront of technology trends, offering employees the chance to work on cutting-edge projects. 6. **Supportive Culture:** Cognizant often promotes a collaborative and supportive work environment, fostering teamwork and mutual respect. These aspects contribute to a positive work experience for many employees at Cognizant....Read More
1. **Workload and Pressure:** Some employees may experience high workloads and pressure, especially during peak project phases or tight deadlines. 2. **Bureaucracy:** In large organizations like Cognizant, navigating bureaucratic processes and hierarchies can sometimes be challenging and slow. 3. **Career Advancement:** There can beconcerns about the pace of career progression and the need for clearer pathways for promotions and role changes. 4. **Compensation and Benefits:** Employees might feel that compensation and benefits could be more competitive compared to industry standards. 5. **Work-Life Balance:** Despite efforts to promote balance, some roles may still involve long hours or demanding schedules that impact work-life balance. 6. **Management Variability:** Experiences with management can vary widely, with some employees finding their interactions with leaders less supportive or effective than desired. These aspects can vary by individual experience and specific role within the company....Read More
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Good infrastructure and provide cab services for associates.
Very less % hike even with a good rating.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
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I like every thing in cognizant
Nothing
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Pay wise very low
More support projects
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Well, I like to say in this company, work environment is good and in this pandemic situation our company take care us and giving salary on time and one of the most important thing is employee safety is their first priority
I don't have any dislike , but one thing please provide office chairs to us, because very difficult to work from home, facing some health issues
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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IT Consulting Department
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Overall good experience, thank u
Good experience
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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No stress
No good projects and compensations
Very bad for those who are at initial stages of their careee
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Management is very good and supportive
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It is very good place to work ... And for your work you will be getting rewarded... You have 100% work life balance in all the projects because of good culture every employee will be in a positive relationship.. which results a good place to work
No Dislikes ... There are few but not worthy to comment
Work days: Monday to Friday
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Learning and nothing else.
No job security is here..they suddenly release you from project and you will not get project. Bench period is very bad. After some days Hr will terminate you.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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I appreciate the collaborative environment at Cognizant, where learning and sharing knowledge are highly encouraged. The company offers plenty of growth opportunities and exposure to diverse technologies, such as Salesforce and more, which helps in continuous skill development. Also I became GenC next here right after one year and got all the timely increments and promotions.
While Cognizant offers a lot of growth opportunities, the fast-paced environment can sometimes lead to high work pressure, and balancing multiple projects can be challenging. Additionally, the communication between teams could be improved for smoother project coordination.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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No work life balance at all and management is not good.
Lack of work life balace they have policy of 10 hrs working on top of that management is asking to work more than that. Other MNC companies in the market have 9 hrs working
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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If joined as a fresher then too many learning opportunities will be there. If worked hard and learned all necessary skills as a fresher then environment will remain good.
If joined as a fresher and didn't developed necessary skills then layoff is fixed. Project interviews will be tough. Some manager will own you whereas some projects and people of projects are actually good. So it's like 50/50.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Work Life Balance. But still it depends on the project you are working on.
No Job Security. No flexibility within the management and reportee...incompetent/worst HR and Management,Worst project allocation process.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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Good for Experienced persons
Not good for freshers because most of them will be placed on the bench for over a year without any work.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country, Travel Within City, International Travel.
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Software Development Department
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IT Security Department
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Overall it is good.
No dislikes
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CTS provides a good work life balance and decent salary. All other things depends on the type of project which you got.
As a fresher you will be getting support projects , so be aware before choosing any project.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Business Process Quality Department
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Promotions should be given as per the hard work and caliber of an employee . There shouldn't be any partiality for the employees from supervisors.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Before Ravi Kumar , Cognizant used to be best in the business in every aspect .
After Ravi Kumar , Yearly hike became just formality , auto promotion has been stopped , job security reduced .
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Cognizant has its challenges as a workplace. While there are learning opportunities, the work environment and work-life balance heavily depend on the project, which can make the experience unpredictable. Overall, it’s not the most rewarding place to work.
The salary is low, promotions take forever, and the work culture isn’t great. It really depends on the project, but overall, it’s not the best experience.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Work-life balance (Although it depends on project to project) Good work culture and friendly team.
1. Salary 2. Scope to learn and apply it in project. CTS provides access to Udemy where we can enroll into courses as much as we want, but our team faced lack of opportunities to apply them in project.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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It is good for beginners, avoid going into support project as they will make you work even on your sick days off. And HR wont help in this case either.
Work-life balance is close to non-existant. Really poor promotion cycles. No help from anyone if the project shuts down, you will have to look for another one on your own , else they will remove you. Used to pay fairly but is now as good as literally any other company like TCS, Infosys in terms of both work quality and compensation. No real way to move vertically based on merit unlike TCS.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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IT Support Department
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We can get free online portal like udemy.
Once you are hired, there is no relevant project assignment, you need to forcefully work on assignment project and not based on your profile. No work satisfaction and company culture. Not good promotions, salary.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Health Informatics Department
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Seniors and team leader are very toxic. Seniors scold very badly to freshers even if you don't small mistake. They will call you anytime other than shift timings for their convenience. They are pressuring to complete your work before the shift timings. There is no work life balance
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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If ur manager is good and have guiding nature and judges u on the basis of work, u r soo lucky else u will have praise them(iykyk).
So much of internal politics goes on. My manager has pulled her brother into the same project and he has been been promoted to associate within very time irrespective of his work. His work quality is very poor. And during client meeting also, he was not able to convey his deliverables properly. The client was not at all satisfied and irrespective of all this he got promotion this time.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Employees were friendly and helpful
Higher management is worst, total cmpy internal politics will rule the process, no ethics and values in this cmpy and force us to resign when we ask anything and they'll go egoistic Working hours is 10 hrs, they will put lot of pressure to complete the work, they hire only limited people bcoz budget limitations and we have to extend the shifts till 12 - 14 hrs a day Promotions will be available only for chamchas (who will say always yes to Managers)...Read More
Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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