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Updated 8 Oct, 2022
Overall Rating
1.0/5
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3.9
Job Security
2.1
Work-Life balance
1.6
Company culture
1.6
Skill development
1.6
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
Cognizant is rated
1.0 out of 5 stars on
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Cognizant is rated
1.0 out of 5 stars on
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reflects a below average employee experience, indicating poor satisfaction with
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Senior Test Analyst Test Lead in
Chennai
IT Consulting Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 23 May 2022
Likes
job security only the major thing to work there other than that nothing is there to be in cognizant
Dislikes
Work company in all the things no hike compensation, worst place to work, poor management, have to be pet for manager to get hike and move to next position, simply waste all spend 15 to. 20yrs in the same organization and wasting the IT sector
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Test Analyst in
Noida
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 17 Jan 2025
Likes
Work environment is good as compared to other competitors.
Dislikes
Salary hikes and promotions are not given to eligible candidates. Favouritism is there.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Software Engineer in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
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.
Dislikes
The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Senior Associate in
Noida
Full Time
·
Procurement & Purchase Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
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
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: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Senior Associate in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
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.
Dislikes
The appraisal system dropped drastically in couple of years. Very minimum salary hike with high ratings.
Senior Associate in
Mumbai (working remotely)
Full Time
·
Finance Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 25 Dec 2024
Likes
it's good environment working in cognizant it's good work life balance and overall good experience
Dislikes
i request to please improve management like manager team leader because not good behaviour to junior
Associate Software Engineer in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 24 Dec 2024
Likes
Good I like that there are good projects available. If you get that great you will get experience and knowledge.
Dislikes
1. Salary and hikes are low.
2. Poor employee welfare activities, once a year they take you out for team lunch. If you missed then nothing, no gifts, abs nothing, saving so much money but gives back nothing.
Technical Lead in
Pune
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Dec 2024
Likes
Cognizant has hybrid work model, which is good for employees.
Dislikes
Cognizant bench policy is bad, they give less days to get yourself into a project. Also salary hike is low.
Work Details
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.
Software Engineer in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
2.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 09 Dec 2024
Likes
Flexibility in location and timings
Too many learning opportunities
Dislikes
Depends lot on project and people
Work life balance
Salary and increments
Work Details
Work policy:
2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
QA Engineer in
Gurgaon / Gurugram
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 07 Dec 2024
Likes
It's about the connectivity to the city,the office habitat culture and the work space it's quite good which creates a good place to work.
Dislikes
In terms of work life balance cognizant doesn't do anything it's only depends on your client and in cognizant benching is the factor which makes your job in non securable here.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Software Engineer in
Pune
Full Time
·
Engineering Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
2.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 04 Dec 2024
Likes
I don't like working in this company. I just don't have any other options left.
Dislikes
What's there not to dislike. Biggest issue is that there's no HR to raise ur concerns to. All they have is a portal and that too just for show.
Work Details
Work days: Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
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Project Lead in
Chennai
Full Time
·
Technology / IT Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
It's waste... Very partiality management's. No Job security. Very Dangerous zone....
Very worst...
Not recommended
Dislikes
Partiality management's...
Whoever favor that person only growing
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Programmer Analyst in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
Lots of opportunity to learn and upgrade ypur skills
Dislikes
What i feel , as per skills I posses and work I do we defenetly deserve more salary.Salary is in lower side.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Executive in
Chennai
Full Time
·
Technology / IT Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
It offers various learning opportunity.
Dislikes
There are people work under practices, each practices operate differently. No timely promotions. When a person get released pressuring to get resigned.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Programmer Analyst in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
2.0
Company Culture
2.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
I have been learning new technologies since day one, so learning is never stopped for me after joining cognizant
Dislikes
Cognizant will not pay you well ,
Even if you are eligible for a better pay at the correct time they will release you from the project so that they don't have to promote you
Team Lead in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad (working remotely)
Full Time
·
Service Delivery Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
2.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
2.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
Auto Promotion seems to be a good thing however, I didn't get it as I am completely 2 years with organization
Dislikes
No HR representative transperancy to contact, I thought that every employee tries to avoid the risk from doing the task
Senior Systems Engineer in
Pune
Full Time
·
Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
5.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 18 Jan 2025
Likes
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.
Dislikes
NOTHING.
Work Details
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.
Android Developer in
Mumbai
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 17 Jan 2025
Likes
Worse experience with Cognizant, the project they will assign you won't have future and you have no option they will make you work or go on the bench
Dislikes
No future growth ,the management are just to save there position, no technical knowledge, they will treat you like slave ,they won't approve the leaves and make you to work on Saturday. Mentally they will torcher the agent ,and after few day they will ask the employe to be on the bench and take search new job
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Associate in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 17 Jan 2025
Likes
I got very high learning opportunities with great role and responsibilities and they had high trust in me.
Dislikes
As other MNCs we have all the dislikes especially we will get support even if we are developers, won't get enough resource for the project as needed so will get high work but I'm lucky to get into the right project but my colleagues were unlucky in there as well.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Associate in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
2.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 16 Jan 2025
Likes
It is permanently closed
Dislikes
It was closed without informing anyone. While acquiring they infomerd all the employees that unit will not be closed. But within one year they closed all the units from by Cognizant
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Scrum Master in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Technology / IT Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 14 Jan 2025
Likes
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.
Dislikes
Promotions and appraisal are not process based, frequent change in salary increament schedule are changed and also arrear are not paid for 3months.
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How is Cognizant to work for?
Cognizant is rated 1.0 out of 5, based on 2 reviews by employees on AmbitionBox.
Cognizant is known for Job Security which is rated at the top and given a rating of 3.9. However, Salary & Benefits 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 1.6 at Cognizant by 2 employees. While job security is rated 3.9 and work-life balance is rated 2.1 at Cognizant. Read detailed reviews by employees of Cognizant on AmbitionBox.