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Cognizant
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IT Network Department
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OK OK
No hikes, no career growth
Good but nothing to learn
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves International Travel.
IT Network Department
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Friendly nature
Transportation and worst food facilities and worst compensations
Boring
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
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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:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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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
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 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.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Growth and carrier opportunity. Bucket of benefits is adjustable which is good. Quality work and new skills learning opportunity
Work culture is not good. Team size is always minimised. Managers are too demanding. No work life balance
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.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Working environment in every project differs. My starting project was very well employee friendly. Leave policies are good here.
Some projects do micro management. You will get irritated by management.
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.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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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.
Hikes are very less when compare to other companies. Due to internal politics talented people efforts are recognised.
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.
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Software Development Department
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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.
Appraisal and performance bonus payout .
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Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC Department
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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.
NOTHING.
Work policy: SOMETIMES IT WORK FROM HOME AND SOMETIMES ITS FROM OFFICE.
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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I got offer during pandemic as fresher since then I worked remotely which helped me.
The promotion and salary hike is not as per the employee performance
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Procurement & Purchase Department
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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
Not good approasal No timely appraisal No promotion policies No standard salary parameters as per exp No benchmarking for compensastion
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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.
The appraisal system dropped drastically in couple of years. Very minimum salary hike with high ratings.
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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.
Everything was good until the new CEO Ravi Kumar taken over. Promotions are halted, yearly hikes are dropped.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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Good pay and simple payment structure also performance appraisal system is best
Work life balance, pressure job security is a bit of concern
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Corporate Training Department
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I like the current role in the organisation and the company culture
The payment, hikes and promotion for the business support team is below industry standards
Work policy: 8 days a month
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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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
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
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Opportunities to learn, security of job
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
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.
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Software Development Department
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Training Team and the way the trainer taught us.
Salary payslip which shows one amount in the payslip and one amount get credited in account of the month December
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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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
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.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Nothing is interesting about CTS at this point of time
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
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.
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IT Support Department
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Nothing to like about this company
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
Work days:Â Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This job involves Travel Within City.
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Non Voice Department
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Nothing.
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.
Work days:Â Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel:Â This is a desk job.
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