Cognizant Senior Associate Reviews

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Likes

Nothing to be liked except the friends you make here with whom you share similar experiences

Dislikes

Work hour policy Higher managment controlling your leaves/wfh Employee engagements Employee rewards and recognitions Lack of diwali gifts when most of Indian companies show gestures with a small token

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Long term projects but mainly support projects. Flexible work timings On time salary and some increment every year Scope to show case your skills

Dislikes

Every time you have search for the projects once your current project ramp down

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

It was great place to grow and Learn, was given opportunity to learn new technologies and come with new ideas of implementation.

Dislikes

- That is not with cognizant, as my project was distributed across multiple locations we doesn't have that great team bond unlike my previous experience.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

They offer competitive salary package. That’s all.

Dislikes

There’s no job satisfaction or personal growth. Enough toxic people up there in the management. So don’t expect any support. It’s all about billing. Also you need to complete a ton of courses and most of them are irrelevant or obsolete, so it just eat your valuable time. Most of the time we have to spend our personal time to do all these since there will be project deadlines.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Perks and benefits at Cognizant are good, such as health insurance, which covers my parents as well as my spouse's parents, which is rare. Other benefits include Wi-Fi reimbursement and more.

Dislikes

They lack a proper system for managing job security and project allocation. Projects are not assigned based on the candidates' skills, and this random assignment leads to problems later. As a result, employees resign early, and the company has to start searching for new candidates again.

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.