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System Validation Engineer in Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
IT Consulting Department
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Canteen Facilities sometimes and employee engagement activities.
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1. HR harass you by sending notice if you do not follow RTO policy. 2. Highest performer having rating 5 gets 4.5% and the one with 1 rating gets 1-1.5% yearly increment. Highly motivating. 3. You go to office and you don't get any seats as all are preb1ooked. Seat on a couch or cafeteria. Who cares!!! 4. Senior Managers are like micro managers and give preference to those who can handle their activities. 5. Work life balance is just name sake, even on holidays/ sick leave u need to address calls/ attend meetings. 6. It's expected that you are handling multiple account at the given payraise without complaining. 7. Few Managers are so frustrated that they will make your work on weekends as well and appreciate those who spend their weekends doing work rather than taking care of family. 8. You need to attend client meeting, Cognizant internal meetings, and a hell number of other meetings which does not make sense. 9. Reporting manager will be one and then you'll be handed over to other team who has a separate manager. It's like reporting to multiple managers/bosses. 10. No proper training for new joiners. 11. Training is mostly provided by Managers who are like there for a long time and they understand that training is something like handing over a document and the person will be figuring it out how to do the activity. And yes I am not talking about an SOP, just a document. "Read the shared document and make a new document". This is the training situation....Read More
- Salary - Poor
- Skill development - Poor
- Job security - Poor
- Promotions - Bad
- Work satisfaction - Poor
- Company culture - Bad
- Work-life balance - Bad
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Opportunities to learn, security of job
- Job security - Good
- Company culture - Good
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Management will not care about your problems. Salary is low compared to competitors. They'll change your project at September and for year end rating they'll simply say we haven't got chance to fully understand your capabilities as you've recently joined in the project. Every year this loop continues. No matter how hard you work or how many appreciations you get from client. "The more number of days you're in the same LOB, the more rating you'll get." (This is the excuse I've got when I questioned about the rating, despite having multiple client appreciations). This demotivates for sure!...Read More
- Salary - Poor
- Promotions - Bad
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Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Programmer Analyst in Kolkata
Full Time
IT Support Department
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Nothing to like about this company
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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
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Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Programmer Analyst in Mumbai
Full Time
DevOps Department
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Depends on your home manager, some are really supportive. 5-6 hours required from office (depends on the project), rest can be done from home, udemy access, cloud certifications
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Salary is too low, only ceo earns good money, exploiting freshers and playing with their careers. They don't have many projects, so most of the time people will be on bench. Promotions are delayed/cancelled based on their convenience citing reasons like utilization is less (common sense- it is less because the company has less projects). Promotions criteria are increased if you satisfy previous required criteria. Hikes are less than peanuts. Company culture is bad, no festival celebration nothing. Work-life balance depends on the project; if you have a project, then you're overloaded with work and if you don't, you're overloaded with stress as they can terminate you anyday. FEW OF THE LATERAL HIREES ARE PUT ON BENCH AND LATER TERMINATED AFTER 6 MONTHS. JOIN ONLY IF YOU WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME AND CAREER....Read More
- Salary - Bad
- Job security - Bad
- Promotions - Bad
- Work satisfaction - Poor
- Company culture - Poor
- Work-life balance - Poor
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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.
Programmer Analyst in Mumbai
Full Time
Engineering Department
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There is nothing I can remember to like
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The culture was very bad, there was no work-life balance. The management was not supportive and tremendous rude with employees - Often calling on weekends and nightshifts. Managers used to glorify over work. The environment was like a dungeon. There is no growth for career except those who use to butter managers.
- Salary - Bad
- Skill development - Bad
- Job security - Bad
- Promotions - Bad
- Work satisfaction - Bad
- Company culture - Bad
- Work-life balance - Bad
QA Engineer in Kolkata
Full Time
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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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: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Programmer Analyst in Kolkata
Full Time
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Lots of opportunity to learn and upgrade ypur skills
- Skill development - Excellent
- Job security - Good
- Work satisfaction - Good
- Company culture - Good
- Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
What i feel , as per skills I posses and work I do we defenetly deserve more salary.Salary is in lower side.
- Salary - Poor
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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.
Programmer Analyst in Kolkata
Full Time
Software Development Department
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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
- Salary - Poor
- Job security - Bad
- Promotions - Bad
- Work satisfaction - Poor
- Company culture - Poor
Test Analyst in Noida
Full Time
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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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
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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.
Software Engineer in Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
Software Development Department
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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
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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.
Programmer Analyst in Kolkata
Full Time
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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I believe working in a company is totally depends on the project team with whom we are working. As per my team experience I don't have any issues with the people and the culture of the company. The teammates and seniors around me are helpful and also the manager is good, he always motivate us to grow more.
Dislikes
Some time when somebody need to change their work location for the clients need then company should provide sufficient facilities which company does not provide, this is something which is unexpected.
- Skill development - Poor
- Promotions - Poor
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Processing Executive in Gurgaon / Gurugram
Full Time
Data Science & Machine Learning Department
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Job security is good here. Your process gets change only if you are unable to perform well in any manager expectations. Skill development totally depends on the team leader but I'm sure everyone can show off or polish their skills here.
- Skill development - Good
- Job security - Excellent
Dislikes
No work life balance. HR is so rude when you asks for work from home in serious situation. Salary is too less for the work. Promotions are fixed even if you perform better you only get promoted after a certain time that also depend on your team lead likings.
- Salary - Poor
- Promotions - Bad
- Work satisfaction - Bad
- Company culture - Poor
- Work-life balance - Bad
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Work policy: Depending on manager
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Associate in Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
Software Development Department
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The work life balance is pretty good for me, but again that depends on the project you are into.
- Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
Everything was good until the new CEO Ravi Kumar taken over. Promotions are halted, yearly hikes are dropped.
- Salary - Poor
- Job security - Poor
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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.
Team Lead Operations in Pune (working remotely)
Full Time
Finance Department
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Good pay and simple payment structure also performance appraisal system is best
- Salary - Good
- Skill development - Excellent
Dislikes
Work life balance, pressure job security is a bit of concern
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Senior Executive in Gurgaon / Gurugram
Full Time
Corporate Training Department
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I like the current role in the organisation and the company culture
- Skill development - Good
- Job security - Excellent
- Work satisfaction - Good
- Company culture - Excellent
- Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
The payment, hikes and promotion for the business support team is below industry standards
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Work policy: 8 days a month
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Senior Processing Executive in Pune
Full Time
Customer Success Department
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I liked the ambience and my colleagues in my healthcare domain we used to call by names and not by Sir or Madam Cognizant given me when it comes to personal growth
- Promotions - Good
Dislikes
Many things I dislike about Cognizant that is their washrooms were not clean and planetary area. Everywhere there are cockroaches. The management here is good, but favourite ism and in equality among employees was done based on the religion criteria and not everyone was treated fairly not speaking in regional language Taking cooked up meetings when there is any sick leave taken with document’s but not approved by Manager, then it would be considered as LOP. I still remember an escalation was done by me by a behaviour of my SME. But when I mentioned the same to a manager, he stated he will surely look into this and the next moment, I saw him laughing with my Sm. There was no action taken, and this was the only conclusion we got over the same, where that SME even got the warning letter now, Soni is going to be the deal because of inequality...Read More
- Salary - Poor
- Work satisfaction - Bad
- Company culture - Bad
- Work-life balance - Bad
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Process Executive Data in Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
Software Development Department
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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
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
Senior Informatica Administrator in Pune
Full Time
IT Consulting Department
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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
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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.
Technical Lead in Kolkata
Full Time
IT Infrastructure Services Department
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- 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.
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Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Senior Systems Engineer in Coimbatore
Full Time
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
- 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: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
Mainframe Developer in Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
Software Development Department
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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: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
- HQ - Teaneck. New Jersey., United States (USA)
- IT Services & Consulting
- 1 Lakh+ Employees (India)
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