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Updated 28 Jan, 2019
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4.0/5
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4.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Work-Life balance
4.0
Skill development
4.0
Work Satisfaction
3.7
Job Security
3.7
Promotions/Appraisal
Cognizant is rated
4.0 out of 5 stars on
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Cognizant is rated
4.0 out of 5 stars on
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Medical Writing Analyst in
Navi Mumbai
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
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 03 Jun 2020
Likes
Before lockdown, they were talking all precautions to decrease the spread by sanitizing hands of employees, by checking temperature, etc.
They had provided me with laptop and had asked me to work from home during lockdown.
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Senior Associate in
Pune
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
4.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
5.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
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.
Dislikes
Appraisal and performance bonus payout .
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
Senior Associate in
Chennai
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
3.0
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 01 Dec 2024
Likes
Good working culture among similar service based company.
CTC is straight forward almost like a product based company where fixed component is more and variable component is less
Good team and good development projects compared to support projects in other companies
Good work life balance
Dislikes
Hikes and promotion are not good.
Recent policy changes are not employee friendly
Golden days of Cognizant over once Francisco D’Souza tenure as CEO ended
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
Senior Associate in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 28 Nov 2024
Likes
Stability is good. Though in the ongoing global recession, many of my co-workers had to leave projects because of project ramp down and did not get any other projects. Instead of recruiting employees from bench in other projects they are hiring more from people outside.
Dislikes
Appraisal is bad. So joining with low salary does not help much in the long run, better to switch.
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
Mumbai
Full Time
·
IT Consulting Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
2.0
Skill Development
2.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 27 Nov 2024
Likes
Work depends upon what project you get.
Had a chance to work on a small project from scratch.
Dislikes
Work timings are pathetic.
You work at your regular timings and still have to login later for client calls. In my case mostly extending till midnight.
The hybrid culture here is totally unproductive.
Upper management is worse, expects you to be available anytime for calls.
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.
Senior Associate in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
2.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 22 Nov 2024
Likes
Training and certification in multiple topics
Dislikes
Too many certification and training
Too many meetings
Extended working hours
Promised role as data scientist but it involves mostly data engineering and cloud/deployment staffs
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
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Banking Operations Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
2.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
3.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 19 Nov 2024
Likes
There are multiple projects
Dislikes
The list is endless.
Poor management of accounts.
They give importance only to clients but not to resources. Resources are treated like third class citizens.
Lots of micro management in certain projects.
Scrum masters are the biggest culprits in certain projects, they say they are backing the resources but they keep trying to impress only the clients. In order to impress the clients they put lots of pressure on the resources....Read More
Work Details
Work policy:
2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Associate in
Noida
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
2.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 15 Nov 2024
Likes
I want to see super stupid leadership you can join cognizant. There is nothing any work life balance. no rule
Dislikes
There is nothing any rule.leadership don't know about agile. when they got project you have to work day and night.
Work Details
Work policy:
2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
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Product Test Specialist in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 20 Jan 2025
Likes
It is the best company to work as a Tester. You will be recognized and respected for the contributions you do for project and client.
Dislikes
Ratings are provided based on opinion of others rather than the performance of an individual for whole year. And hikes are automatically affected because of this.
Work Details
Work policy:
Im not sure
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
QA Engineer in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing 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 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.
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.
Infra Technology Specialist in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Service Delivery Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
4.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 19 Jan 2025
Likes
If you have good project, you getting everything. Good team, good appraisal, job security and all.
Dislikes
if you in bench, HR will torture you to put resignation within one month. also you have no option to choose project and select anything worst comes to you. no proper shift allowances will provided. they have zero 0% for mental health 100% for work.
Work Details
Work policy:
recently changed to 5 days office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Senior Infra Developer in
Pune
Full Time
·
DevOps Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
4.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 19 Jan 2025
Likes
I would like to highlight team culture, company campus, leave polices and many more.
Dislikes
Promotion, partiality for Promotion and work accommodation.
Work Details
Work policy:
3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
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.
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How is Cognizant to work for?
Cognizant is rated 4.0 out of 5, based on 2 reviews by employees on AmbitionBox.
Cognizant is known for Company culture which is rated at the top and given a rating of 4.0. However, Job Security is rated the lowest at 3.7 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 4.0 out of 5. You can know more about Cognizant Salaries at AmbitionBox
How is the work culture at Cognizant?
Work culture is rated 4.0 at Cognizant by 2 employees. While job security is rated 3.7 and work-life balance is rated 4.0 at Cognizant. Read detailed reviews by employees of Cognizant on AmbitionBox.