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Cognizant
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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Helpfulness of the supervisor. Transparent HR activities. Diversified work culture. Extended work from home option. Hassle free leave approval if planned in advance
Annual salary hike is not that great. Not many offices in tier-2 cities. Higher leadership frequent changes. 10 hour stay at office between punch-in & out No earned leave accumulation beyond 1 year
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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DBA / Data warehousing Department
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Nothing except working from home option
Appraisals, not employee oriented, selfish managers
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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Investment Banking, Private Equity & VC Department
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There will be one outing or get together organised once a year.
Few departments are biased in treating members. Everyone is not treated equally. Appraisal process is a joke. Some non technical manager will share feedback for technical people. So Appraisal will be screwed up for these people.
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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General Insurance Department
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All good
Nothing so far
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Technology \/ IT Department
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Priority on Technology , delivering good quality software
Nepotism, Top management didn't look on this , bad HR
Software Development Department
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Worst organization at this moment
Politics is worst than the politics in regional ruling parties. No career growth. You will get the increments randomly without any criteria. For the year end appraisal, you will get it at the end of next year; means 1 increment in 2 years. All talent have left this organization. Now they are just hiering anybody paying irrelevant salaries just to show client. Don't know how they will manage in future....Read More
They do not bother about you n your personal front
Work days: Monday to Friday
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
DBA / Data warehousing Department
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Work culture, Excellent opportunity for career growth , Global leader in IT services ,work life balance
Nothing much to specify
Awesome
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Cognizant has hybrid work model, which is good for employees.
Cognizant bench policy is bad, they give less days to get yourself into a project. Also salary hike is low.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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Technology / IT Department
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MNC benefits.
Authoritative Leadership, Office politics, Biased opportunities and performance reviews. Forced attrition. Insurance policy is not good. Delayed hikes and promotions, Extended work hours due to hybrid work policy. Pets take most of the perks unless you work so hard that they have to share some. However, these are most common things that you will come across all IT companies. Just learn to survive, upskill and excel. Do not depend on your job or salary, have multiple streams of income without moonlighting and switch jobs whenever you get a good opportunity. Work for your own success not for the company....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Saturday (Flexible Timings)
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Software Development Department
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Flexibility in location and timings Too many learning opportunities
Depends lot on project and people Work life balance Salary and increments
Work policy: 2 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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Engineering Department
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I don't like working in this company. I just don't have any other options left.
What's there not to dislike. Biggest issue is that there's no HR to raise ur concerns to. All they have is a portal and that too just for show.
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.
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IT Security Department
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It may vary project to project and management to management. My previous project experience is very bad due to the management only. My current project , client and management is quite good.
There is no skip level meeting happens and I found HRs are already teamed up with the management.
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Software Development Department
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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
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 days: Monday to Friday
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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Nothing
Here HR’s don’t even listen to our problems. When we need help from HR’s they don’t even respond to our messages or mail but when they need something from us they directly call us. Here, TMP team will say you will get project but when our bench time ends they force us to take up service desk projects by lying you can change projectafter 6 months. They treat us like we are some garbage and they quickly want to throw us in some garbage pot. These service desk project team leads are uneducated, don’t know how hiring happens. They will very much pressure and workload....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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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.
Appraisal is bad. So joining with low salary does not help much in the long run, better to switch.
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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IT Consulting Department
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Work depends upon what project you get. Had a chance to work on a small project from scratch.
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 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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Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
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It gave me an oppurtunity as a fresher so always grateful for the first chance
Management has very high authority due to which associates suffer. Lot of politics and no work life balance
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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Service Delivery Department
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Well it's a very good place to loose your mind and and peace. With the best 10 hours work culture and no benefits. And the best thing is the ratings they give depends on their personal choice and mood and the best part is once the rating is given it cannot be disputed. And unexpected promotions which will be given to others. Eg if A works hard B will get the promotion. Based on favouritism.
Hmmm. .... Everything. There is no help nor there is any support all are busy with their targets and targets and targets.
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Technology / IT Department
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Ample of learning opportunities if you are willing to take it. Good work life balance in general. Good culture. Leadership if open to hearing employees issues and support them as possible.
Salary is lower compared to other firms.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Not a good transport facility service. Job security is also not there. Very short term projects. In most of the projects, the case is like one person has to do job of 3 people. If there is requirement of 3 people then they will assign all those task to single person. In terms of hike, even if we work harder and show our appreciations still they will say budget issue. No proper growth here. One common thing in all IT sector is that you will be valuable only if there is some work. If not then no one really cares. You are on your own. So be ready for anything guys.. be prepared always to crack interviews at any time....Read More
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Operations Department
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Work culture is excellent. Mixed culture makes it really good work environment. Free hand in New Projects for getting new profile.
Salary as per industry standards is less, Increment as per previous followups has not been great. But favouritism plays it's part.
Work policy: For now WFH
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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DBA / Data warehousing Department
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We can access to lot of learning platforms and also opportunity in CTS as its big firm.
This review is with respect to team of which I was part of. There was no work life balance. Rotational shifts.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Software Development Department
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Good resources for upgrading the skills. Good scope in projects.
No proper work-life balance. If the team is good then you have proper work - life balance otherwise no proper work-life balance.
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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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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They don't have proper training facilities and blame candidates for bad results Specialy genc hr Manoj and maya kumari team for mental pressure and giving wrong information to candidate and later making them mad Idiots
Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This is a desk job.
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Finance Department
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I like working in Cognizant, I won’t say this is best place to work, but if you are looking for settle or tired of weird culture or any issue. This company is better then those.
Here Manager literally owns the company, straight forward rule, you have do everything that your manager says, to manager and get progress. Variable and Bonus get cut down to 20-30% only. Even if you perform the best.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, Travel Within Country.
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IT Consulting Department
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They don’t have ethics with no notice after 3 years of service terminated I was having 50days of dual employment with one of other organisation and i am getting that corrected but still they spoiled my entire career
Never
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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Quality Assurance and Testing Department
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Employee welfare is just a show! They do actually care for their employees. They just see them as money making machines, if they are on maternity or pregnant or going through personal issues can be easily replaceable without giving a second thought about what happens to that employee
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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