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Technical Lead in
Kolkata
Full Time
 ·Â
IT Infrastructure Services Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 30 Jan 2025
Likes
Salary - Good
Skill development - Good
Company culture - Good
Dislikes
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 Details
Work days:Â Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Senior Associate in
Kolkata
Full Time
 ·Â
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 29 Jan 2025
Likes
Growth and carrier opportunity. Bucket of benefits is adjustable which is good. Quality work and new skills learning opportunity
Salary - Good
Skill development - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Dislikes
Work culture is not good. Team size is always minimised. Managers are too demanding. No work life balance
Work Details
Work policy:
2 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Associate in
Pune
Full Time
 ·Â
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 28 Jan 2025
Likes
Working environment in every project differs. My starting project was very well employee friendly. Leave policies are good here.
Dislikes
Some projects do micro management. You will get irritated by management.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Associate in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
 ·Â
IT Infrastructure Services Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
2.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
2.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 26 Jan 2025
Likes
Cognizant have lot of job opportunities and provide nice pay according to market standards.
People working in cognizant can switch to other technology and work on it.
Salary - Good
Job security - Good
Dislikes
Hikes are very less when compare to other companies.
Due to internal politics talented people efforts are recognised.
Skill development - Poor
Promotions - Poor
Work satisfaction - Poor
Company culture - Poor
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Associate in
Pune
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 20 Jan 2025
Likes
Work life balance is good. Job satisfaction is also fair. Company pays fair enough. I am not satisfied or I should say I am not impressed with the appraisal procedure implemented by the management. Post 1 year no appraisal at all or the performance bonus. They have their own way of doing it in the month of July or August and it doesn’t matter when you have completed 1 year.
Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Appraisal and performance bonus payout .
Promotions - Poor
QA Engineer in
Kolkata
Full Time
 ·Â
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
1.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 19 Jan 2025
Likes
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.
Dislikes
I dislike everything like work culture and job security.
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work policy:
5 days/week from office from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Test Analyst in
Noida
Full Time
 ·Â
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 17 Jan 2025
Likes
Work environment is good as compared to other competitors.
Skill development - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Salary hikes and promotions are not given to eligible candidates. Favouritism is there.
Salary - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Software Engineer in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
4.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 16 Jan 2025
Likes
I got offer during pandemic as fresher since then I worked remotely which helped me.
Skill development - Good
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Senior Associate in
Noida
Full Time
 ·Â
Procurement & Purchase Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 10 Jan 2025
Likes
Cognizant has strong capebilities in delivering technology services with a robust support. People are satisfied working here but since past couple of years company has not given ample opportunitiesto employees in terms of growth and compensastion
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Not good approasal
No timely appraisal
No promotion policies
No standard salary parameters as per exp
No benchmarking for compensastion
Work Details
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Senior Associate in
Kolkata
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 10 Jan 2025
Likes
If you swith to Cognizant, they will provide good salary compared to other service based company. They also push their associate for skill development with regular certification drive.
Salary - Good
Skill development - Good
Dislikes
The appraisal system dropped drastically in couple of years. Very minimum salary hike with high ratings.
Promotions - Poor
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Process Executive Data in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
2.0
Company culture
2.0
Work-life balance
posted on 30 Jan 2025
Likes
Training Team and the way the trainer taught us.
Job security - Good
Dislikes
Salary payslip which shows one amount in the payslip and one amount get credited in account of the month December
Work satisfaction - Poor
Company culture - Poor
Work-life balance - Poor
Work Details
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Informatica Administrator in
Pune
Full Time
 ·Â
IT Consulting Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 30 Jan 2025
Likes
Being big company generally we get projects after one project finishes. Since last year started to focus on training
Dislikes
No benefit of certifications. Is pure luck to get project on new tech. No one cares for your progress. Only project work matters. Employee benefit are below average.
Promotions - Poor
Work satisfaction - Poor
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Senior Systems Engineer in
Coimbatore
Full Time
 ·Â
IT Infrastructure Services Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 30 Jan 2025
Likes
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
Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
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 Details
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:Â Rotational Shift
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Mainframe Developer in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 29 Jan 2025
Likes
Nothing is interesting about CTS at this point of time
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
No promotions and partiality based on region especially they do everything for only Tamil people
Managers do not consider other region except Chennai and Coimbatore
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Programmer Analyst in
Kolkata
Full Time
 ·Â
IT Support Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
1.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 29 Jan 2025
Likes
Nothing to like about this company
Dislikes
0 work life balance
Even if you live thousands of kms away they will drag you to come to office
And forget about good salary or promotion
Join this company only if you want to destroy your life and your mental health
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Poor
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work days:Â Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves
Travel Within City.
Processing Executive in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
 ·Â
Non Voice Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
2.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
2.0
Company culture
2.0
Work-life balance
posted on 27 Jan 2025
Likes
Nothing.
Dislikes
Too much work pressure and office politics.
No work life balance.
They treat us as a school children.
HR doesn't take any actions for the individual complain or concerns.
Job security - Poor
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Poor
Company culture - Poor
Work-life balance - Poor
Work Details
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Programmer Analyst Trainee in
Pune
Full Time
 ·Â
Software Development Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
1.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 26 Jan 2025
Likes
Nothing as such
Dislikes
1. They blame employees for the things which are not managed by the company
2. No one responds to your mails and messages
3. Irrelevant training, and later totally different assessment which is difficult to clear
4. They hire for technical profile but asked to work in non tech or resignation.
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Business Analyst in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
 ·Â
Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 26 Jan 2025
Likes
Will get salary that is ok
Dislikes
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
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Team Lead in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad (working remotely)
Full Time
 ·Â
Accounting & Taxation Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
4.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 25 Jan 2025
Likes
Work culture and job security
Skill development - Good
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
Salary is to less compared with other organisations. No proper hikes
Work Details
Work days:Â Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
Developer in
Chennai (working remotely)
Full Time
 ·Â
Product Management - Technology Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
5.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 25 Jan 2025
Likes
1. Work life balance
2. Good training
3 good workspace
4. Pay on time
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How is Cognizant to work for?
Cognizant is rated 3.0 out of 5, based on 1 reviews by employees on AmbitionBox.
Cognizant is known for Company culture which is rated at the top and given a rating of 5.0. However, Salary is rated the lowest at 1.0 and can be improved. To know first hand how it is like to work at Cognizant read detailed reviews based on various job profiles, departments and locations in the reviews section.
How is the salary at Cognizant?
According to AmbitionBox ratings, Cognizant employees rate its salary and benefits as 1.0 out of 5. You can know more about Cognizant Salaries at AmbitionBox
How is the work culture at Cognizant?
Work culture is rated 5.0 at Cognizant by 1 employees. While job security is rated 5.0 and work-life balance is rated 2.0 at Cognizant. Read detailed reviews by employees of Cognizant on AmbitionBox.