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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Skill upgrade opportunity, certifications, work life balance.
No work , short term projects
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Did not get Work as per your skill set
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Good skills to import
Over all good results
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Good
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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IT Network Department
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Overall experience is good
Package is less for experience professionals compare to other IT industrys.
Very good work life balance in cognizant.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Software Development Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Operations Support Department
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Campus and Scope for personal skill development.
No promotion for more than 2 yrs, manager citing dumb reasons like he got low rating so take yours low as well. Asked to invent new things, create issue and solve them to show as achivement. Repeatative copy paste job, manager is dumb, higher management don't care anything abt employee.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Software Development Department
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Colleagues are good and very co-operative.
There is a lack of work-life balance, a poor work culture, and ineffective leadership management. While some managers are supportive, others practice excessive micromanagement. Leave approvals are rarely granted, and the work environment is highly demanding. Being on the bench puts you in the red zone, whereas being in a project offers job security.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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The most I disliked is the annual hikes which is just peanuts. They have given 3-5% hikes to all the employees ( 5% was the maximum hike given to the top performers, rest all got 3-4%. Management forced us to work on weekends from office which could have been easily managed from home as no one comes on weekends and feels like I am in graveyard, and the entire bay remains empty.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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As a technical support analyst, your leaves depend on the team. I worked on 3 different teams 1. Large team you have to preplan the leaves minimum 15 days before the start of each month, so it is hard to get leaves for festivals 2. Good manager always approved leaves 3. Can't even imagine to take leave tightly packed roster. Work life balance is good because I was in work from home most of the time. The best part of cognizant is skill development - Free Udemy subscription, Free vouchers for Microsoft, Google, AWS certifications. Also 50% reimbursement for other certifications related to your role. Salary is average, but not much competitive. Culture Depends on the project based on my 3 projects 1. Good 2. Great 3. Worst...Read More
Job security depends on situations. Few of my friends were in bench for more than 6 months, happily receiving salary without joining any project. While one of my friend was dismissed from cognizant because of not reporting to office during bench time. It all depends on the lead., my last project lead is a good man but a bad lead, he is new to cognizant as well. He doesn't even hear your suggestions and made me lose 3 months of night shift allowances worth 18,000...Read More
Work policy: For most days it was work from home. Then they asked to report to office for 3 days, later 2 days and in my last project it was work from home again
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC Department
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COGNIZANT HAS FREE UDEMY ACCESS THROUGH WHICH I LEARNT MANY TECHNOLOGIES. IT HAS BOTH PERMANANT WORK FROM HOME AND HYBRID WORKING MODEL AS PER THE REQUIREMENT OF AN EMPLOYE.
NOTHING.
Work policy: SOMETIMES IT WORK FROM HOME AND SOMETIMES ITS FROM OFFICE.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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I got offer during pandemic as fresher since then I worked remotely which helped me.
The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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DevOps Department
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Liked the policies that is shown publicly or that a employee will feel initially but later when employees faces problems there is no guidelines and proper accountability.
The internal policies and politics are very bad. The managers are too arrogant. There is no way the employee can provide appraisal to the managers. There should be a appraisal process for Managers from employees as some companies are having.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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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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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Banking Operations Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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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)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Non Voice Department
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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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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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I liked my profile and job
the unwanted politics amongst seniors to bully their juniors, i was kind of harassed by newly appoiinted manager. Supercedness by seniors; ignoring the situations, dedicatedly commiting on everything to the client requirement without consulting with team members who actually knows what the scenario and work is.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Nothing much to like here
Internal politics, managers don't know why they are giving rating on what basis, there is no proper evaluation. Only boot lockers have opportunity here
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Voice / Blended Department
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Work satisfaction will be negative, up to my view. No words for this company either is it process issue or company issue but at last emloyee is suffering.
Nothing to like here ....
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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