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Cognizant
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No scope for growth.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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No promotion, recognition, work from office
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Technology / IT Department
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Multiple project exposure
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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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Service Delivery Department
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Nothing as of now
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Great experience especially with some people managers rather than task managers
Need more people Managers than task masters and who listen and provide solution to people’s problems rather than pushing to just get tasks done at the cost of people’s work life balance
Work timings: Strict Timings
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A good place to work.Transparency in communication. Secure under the old Leadership team. No compensation and Benefits for the last two years.No projects for Managerial and Leadership roles. Good medical policy and other employee benefits.
The company laid most of the Mid-level Associates who really worked hard in the progress of the organization. They did not support during COVID 19 situation. lots of resources were jobless, which was very bad after working for a company for a long time. Salary hike has been stopped for the Mid-level for the last two years. No values for skills as we need to adjust as per project requirements.
I have handle end to end projects. Working closely with customers for any escalations or for new requirements in projects.
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.
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Learning
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I have completed 15 years in cognizant and enjoying my tenure with cognizant.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Very good Culture in theory and policies are very good.
The culture of cognizant is being defeated by political behaviour of some senior people. Hence your hard work may not be recognized.
Driving multiple projects and helping COE to prepare RFP's is a very challenging work.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Motivating people for aggressive business growth and capability of building outstanding delivery infrastructure
Politics is a bit frustrating -
Work was exciting - Opportunities were given - There were ups and downs but overall it was a great experience.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
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Software Development Department
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Company is doing g a large expenses on skill development, learning and training.
There is no fix yearly increment cycle .it's every year got change and happy all most 1.5 years..that is a bad and demotivate
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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Health Informatics Department
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Work life balance, Work culture and learnings
Appraisal, release before rating and too much dependencies on one location (Chennai). Now no onsite
Work policy: 2 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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Good learning at CTS as it provides free Udemy enrollment and lots of sponsor courses and certification
Lake of transparency, bad hike ,job security is main concern even after opening plenty of years.
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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Technology / IT Department
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Great place to try out diverse project experiences if you have positive attitudes to learn everything. Leadership is passionate of new technology and client centricity. Pays competitive salary benefits may not be high at times but sustainable for long, rewarding association. Will recommend people to experience Cognizant.
If you remain too good on a domain, likely you will get trapped into it and not allowed to learn horizontal skills. So keeping a balance and relationship to horizontal people are important in any large project centric organization.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within City.
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Technology / IT Department
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Its not a great place to work after Francis left from Organization. Work life imbalance, hike and promotion are very worst. Leadership wont follow HR policy like transfer, incentives etc. Where employee will claims money for their official work. Only leadership people are enjoying their life with greater salary package and their earnings. Current CEO is taking more pkg but gives very poor hike to employee like 1-2%. Market is poor for junior level employee but leadership are enjoying....Read More
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Work timings: Strict Timings
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Technology / IT Department
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Lot of opportunities to pick new skills and explore different technologies and areas of work. Diversity is given good recognition and opportunities
Distance to office and compensation not upto market standards
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 Consulting Department
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In some departments people (especially managers) don't even respond. And forget about HRs, they'll address your queries once ina blue moon.
I dislike the stubborn culture. They take feedbacks and then drain them through the gutter.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Department
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Work from home but it was biased not to all. No equality in implementing WFH.
Old employees have strong internal hidden groups. They collectively lay off new joiners and save there jobs
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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Service Delivery Department
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Well it's a very good place to loose your mind and and peace. With the best 10 hours work culture and no benefits. And the best thing is the ratings they give depends on their personal choice and mood and the best part is once the rating is given it cannot be disputed. And unexpected promotions which will be given to others. Eg if A works hard B will get the promotion. Based on favouritism.
Hmmm. .... Everything. There is no help nor there is any support all are busy with their targets and targets and targets.
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Software Development Department
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Cognizant has hybrid work model, which is good for employees.
Cognizant bench policy is bad, they give less days to get yourself into a project. Also salary hike is low.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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Technology / IT Department
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Ample of learning opportunities if you are willing to take it. Good work life balance in general. Good culture. Leadership if open to hearing employees issues and support them as possible.
Salary is lower compared to other firms.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Not a good transport facility service. Job security is also not there. Very short term projects. In most of the projects, the case is like one person has to do job of 3 people. If there is requirement of 3 people then they will assign all those task to single person. In terms of hike, even if we work harder and show our appreciations still they will say budget issue. No proper growth here. One common thing in all IT sector is that you will be valuable only if there is some work. If not then no one really cares. You are on your own. So be ready for anything guys.. be prepared always to crack interviews at any time....Read More
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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Operations Department
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Work culture is excellent. Mixed culture makes it really good work environment. Free hand in New Projects for getting new profile.
Salary as per industry standards is less, Increment as per previous followups has not been great. But favouritism plays it's part.
Work policy: For now WFH
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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DBA / Data warehousing Department
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We can access to lot of learning platforms and also opportunity in CTS as its big firm.
This review is with respect to team of which I was part of. There was no work life balance. Rotational shifts.
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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Software Development Department
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Good resources for upgrading the skills. Good scope in projects.
No proper work-life balance. If the team is good then you have proper work - life balance otherwise no proper work-life balance.
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 Infrastructure Services Department
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They don't have proper training facilities and blame candidates for bad results Specialy genc hr Manoj and maya kumari team for mental pressure and giving wrong information to candidate and later making them mad Idiots
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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I like working in Cognizant, I won’t say this is best place to work, but if you are looking for settle or tired of weird culture or any issue. This company is better then those.
Here Manager literally owns the company, straight forward rule, you have do everything that your manager says, to manager and get progress. Variable and Bonus get cut down to 20-30% only. Even if you perform the best.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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IT Consulting Department
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They don’t have ethics with no notice after 3 years of service terminated I was having 50days of dual employment with one of other organisation and i am getting that corrected but still they spoiled my entire career
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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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