Cognizant Java Software Engineer Reviews

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Infrastructure

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Glencore was a horrible project Management was threatening the employees to work day and night to complete the work which has less impact Too much burden, except project work many other management work has been given to the employees

Work Details

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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I appreciate the collaborative environment at Cognizant, where learning and sharing knowledge are highly encouraged. The company offers plenty of growth opportunities and exposure to diverse technologies, such as Salesforce and more, which helps in continuous skill development. Also I became GenC next here right after one year and got all the timely increments and promotions.

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While Cognizant offers a lot of growth opportunities, the fast-paced environment can sometimes lead to high work pressure, and balancing multiple projects can be challenging. Additionally, the communication between teams could be improved for smoother project coordination.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

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No work life balance at all and management is not good.

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Lack of work life balace they have policy of 10 hrs working on top of that management is asking to work more than that. Other MNC companies in the market have 9 hrs working

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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The environment is pretty good and gets to learn new things.Also workload is manageable.

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No job security. Silent layoffs are done in a disrespectful way including good employees. Very low salary for employees. And mainly doesn't settles your remaining amount after your resignation.

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No comments

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I am working alone in project, people know my good work and hardworking, but no recognition, no good rating, no promotion, and not satisfied with hike as well, worst experience, notice period is 90 days i want early release from company, please take a look on it

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If joined as a fresher then too many learning opportunities will be there. If worked hard and learned all necessary skills as a fresher then environment will remain good.

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If joined as a fresher and didn't developed necessary skills then layoff is fixed. Project interviews will be tough. Some manager will own you whereas some projects and people of projects are actually good. So it's like 50/50.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

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I appreciate Cognizant's commitment to innovative projects, which keeps me constantly learning and growing.The global presence of Cognizant allows me to collaborate with diverse teams and gain a broader perspective.

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At times, the fast-paced environment at Cognizant can be challenging, leading to high workloads and tight deadlines. Additionally, coordinating across different time zones can sometimes impact work-life balance.

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If you got good project then you will learn alot

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1.You have to be lucky to get good project. 2.Your job is secure until you are on project. 3. Health insurance provided by company is very bad.. it will never help you in different situations

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Learning Platform (Udemy) Free Cloud Certification Work from home Work life balance Get leaves easily

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No job security. You will be ask to leave or resign by taking lump sump amount. No retention policy. Fake job postings on TMP. Biasing on the basis of gender. No meaning of Full time employee. No projects for PA or fresher. They will keep u for 18 months project then on bench, after that back to home.

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.

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Learning scope is good. You have a dedicated platform to explore and learn the skill of your choice at your convenience.

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Promotion cycle/criteria changes recently adopted (Internal Job Moves) - allowing supervisors to promote the resources to next level without a specific criteria. This is creating official platform for favourability.

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Good I like that there are good projects available. If you get that great you will get experience and knowledge.

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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.

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Growth Opportunities. International opportunities are available for the right individuals

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Nothing that I can think off. Salary can be enhanced a little more!!!

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel, Travel Within Country.

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Cognizant will be give you access to Udemy and many more other platforms from which you can do any courses for free of cost and level up yourself.

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While in working with Cognizant you have to forget your work life balance because you will be forced to worked more than 10 11 hours daily and If you don't, threat of laying off will be given to you through your TL and managers

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So far, i do not see any good experiences in terms of ratings, feedback, employee friendly, personal/family related concerns. Just getting pathetic treatment from all sides due to north indian culture and having personal concerns of location preference as bangalore. Always critised for the opportunity they provided like they have given what is not expected as employer. It seems like the employment is chargeable and costs my whole life in chennai only then I deserve to be a right candidate to work in their project. Seniors and HCM managers mostly lack of proper response and fair treatment in terms of opportunities, assignments, consideration, knowledge sharing, project experiences, personal concerns, ratings, feedback and support....Read More

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Not feeling good due to consistently forced to change project and degrade ratings. Always denied for preferred location project even after 6 years of work experiences within cognizant. Did not get full exposure and work experience of the study in the project since I am not working as per their location preferrence. HCM managers are only utilising me for their work completion but never support about the personal concern. Mostly tamil managers are sucking the career of North Indian resource and never support since I have location constraints and requested to work from bangalore location. Tamil managers always wanted me to not to work from bangalore location unnecessarily which is very unfair. Not getting proper response and very badly treated by hcm managers or lead within project. This company just looking outside fine but inside it there is hell amount of unfair practices within projects in life science domain. Always critised for not being able to come to Chennai and got the average or poor ratings along with project release....Read More

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, Travel Within Country.

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Having a job

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Too many things to dislike. Zero transperancy in their hiring. Nodal point transport which can be anywhere from 2-5 km radius. 10 hrs shifts and with cab travel, it's 14 hrs shift. Rapid hire and fire company. You get no compensation and have 30 days to find a new job.

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It's MNC so work load is not much and you get nice architecture office and locality

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They lay off when they don't have projects. They are over hired and less projects left with them.. you won't feel the pain but they will somehow kick you out if they don't need you... they might give you salary for 2 or 3 months to keep the mouth shut but they will lay off you silently