Cognizant Technology Architect Reviews

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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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As Long as if u are comfortable with the clients, u are good. if not . its a question mark

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same

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Learning and development ,work life balance

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Appraisal system, performance management

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Nothing much to like, to be honest. If at all I have to add anything positive, I would say that you may have a chance to go abroad for projects but then you have to give up all your ethics and morals, play cut throat politics and ignore technical skills, do whatever the manager says, be good at back stabbing and blaming others.

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Third class toxic and unethical work culture. Never seen such a political place. Not a place at all for people with better technical skills. I am saying this as an ex-employee of companies like Symantec, Veritas, VMWare and Cisco. Vast difference in culture, not just because of service vs product organization, but also the culture. Culture is vastly dominated by middle management people who passed out of tier 3 engineering colleges of TN, KA, WB and MH. Uninspiring. Even their offices are dull and boring unlike say Infy or TCS. Even for hardware upgrades, there is cost cutting and you need approvals from VP to add extra RAM to your machine for running specific IDEs :)) There is an air of arrogance all around. I mean, you really are not a company of good technical skills or experience, are you? The top management is rarely seen or heard, but they manage to keep the company afloat and get projects from clients. The middle management is a cesspit. Even the travel operations guy has some air of arrogance like he is doing you a personal favour by processing your visa. Oh bhai, shaant reh, I have my own PR too, and I am going for company work and not using your money. Overall this is the kind of attitude you can expect at cognizant. Even startups with much higher skills and expertise are a lot more down to earth and practical. Here in Cognizant, it is some Chennai Rajnikanth style of some bravado and arrogance. The current CEO Ravikumar wont be able to change much, the company seems to be rotten to the core since a decade now. Cognizant had everything going for it till about a decade ago when they lost direction. Not a company for polite people who like to focus on work, getting things done and solve problems. It is more of a company where if you talk more and play politics, you move ahead. If you are polite and professional, people here assume that you are weak and try to overwhelm you....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work Culture and learning

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No work life balance

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Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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If you are willing to grow, they will give you more reaponsibilities than your current role and will trust you with it.

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Internal conflicts between horizontal on a technology which is managed by both.

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Nothing

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Whole Organization doesnt have transparent policies

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Support and help in learning

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Bench policy

Work Details

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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matured, Learning scope all seniors leaders are very supportive.

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NA

Work Details

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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Work Satisfaction.

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Appraisal process and hierarchic.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Job security is a big issue. Otherwise salary, benefits are good.

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Job security. Process are not stream lined

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Best workplace

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All Good here