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Technology / IT Department
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Leadership matters the most. If you are under right leader you will have proper growth. You will have flexibility to work.
Organization still blindly believing some unskilled leaders. Noone seems to cross questioning on their capacity. Mostly onshore team members rushes behind taking someone's credit on their name. There are many positions where unskilled people are present which will let you work without playing politics.
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Software Development Department
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They are not provide the promotion and hike, too much of politics in entire organisation
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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IT Support Department
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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible 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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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Will get salary that is ok
But if you give more importance to mental health than salary don't join this company. You are literally a slave of the client and no body will speak for you.. and if your too lucky to get a client like Novartis(pharmaceutical company) and especially get into celonis tool project then you can say bye bye to your mental health and just hug the salary you get and stay. Working hard is not the issue but the politics they play and the slavery you guys will experience is more than what was done in the colonization period. Hope everyone understands my mental health state currently and would deeply analyze before joining cognizant or Novartis....Read More
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One of the best employee centric company in service based industry, recent statements from leaders from other organisation is shameful and treating their employee as daily wage labourer but thankful to my company leadership who has great vision and decisions are made towards employee focus. Company is still following hybrid model and no fixed days yet.
Promotions and appraisal are not process based, frequent change in salary increament schedule are changed and also arrear are not paid for 3months.
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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They provide hybrid work culture & location approval as per your need that is the best thing of working in Cognizant.
Here job security is less & those people who were in bench were high chances of layoffs as they don’t get any project.
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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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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Back Office Department
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Growth Opportunities. International opportunities are available for the right individuals
Nothing that I can think off. Salary can be enhanced a little more!!!
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within Country.
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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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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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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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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
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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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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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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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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