Cognizant Programmer Analyst Reviews

Likes

After Ravi Kumar took over as CEO there is nothing left to like about Cognizant anymore.

Dislikes

Not respecting their junior employees, no proper HR communication, not giving promotions on time etc...

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

1. Best organization where you can get as much as learning & development opportunity with latest tech. 2. Seniors, leadership is supportive. 3. Haven't seen very intense kind of micromanagement within teams. 4. Best clients and kind of work

Dislikes

1. Lacks on criteria like hikes, promotions. 2. On bench 5 days week office 3. No scope of asking for how much hike you deserve. which is commonly not present in any big MNC's.

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

Its good for freshers to upskill and develop but after that not much .

Dislikes

Almost no hikes No promotions Management and leadership are bad at communicating No one listens to your queries or issues or suggestions Company culture is more strict than your school

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

You have many opportunities to learn, Yearly medical checkup covered in company insurance.

Dislikes

Getting recognized for your work is hard here, It will also not be easy to switch your project from support to dev, but options are there you can try Expecting night shift employees to be in office

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Nothing. The biggest mistake I committed in my life was choosing this Company over TCS, now I am regretting, office politics is above all nothing matters you work or not you just need to make your leads happy, for promotion and appraisal.

Dislikes

Everything, Everything, Everything

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Udemy access, certification

Dislikes

Everything..when you're in a project, you're overburdened with work since they take less resource as per requirement and when you don't have project, you are under the knife to be terminated. They have hired so many candidates and mostly everyone's on bench. Lastly, they will terminate saying that you were given 35 days bt couldn't find a project..but where should we find projects if company has lost most of its project. The CEO is the highest earning Indian CEO but on the cost of junior employees promotions and hike...Read More

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

Teammates and project members are completely supportive. We can approach anyone. All possible only if we are fast learner.

Dislikes

Promotions late and hikes low Low projects

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

Nothing

Dislikes

Promotions are not given properly here, hikes are very less. Senior management won't care about the employees under them. CEO is just working for showing profits to investors rather than taking care of employees by removing all benefits, not giving promotions, hikes

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

1. Skill development 2. Work life balance (depends on project & manager) 3. Hybrid model (only for those who are allocated to project if the project wants hybrid otherwise typical 5 day work)

Dislikes

1. Carrer growth🤧 2. Salary hikes ( 4 percent for 5 ⭐ 😮‍💨) 3. Less projects for freshers. Most of the freshers will be on bench or be non billable without work for more than 1.5 years. Then force them to give up if they are still not billable😴. 4. Relocation: This is one the worst thing in the company, If you are working in yourdesired city it's good. But, most of the times you may have ODC in your city but still they call you/force you to relocate to CHENNAI otherwise you should put the papers, which is one of the worst cities in India to live with respect to language, weather, food, pgs/flats availability, which is subjected to cyclones every year and you will struck in the middle....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.

Likes

There skill development programs will be very good. Salary comes on time no delays.

Dislikes

Continuous hiring Long bench for freshers They will torture us to a point that we just want to resign. Work life balance is a joke.

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

Good environment to learn and develop our skills while working on different projects. Will be a great learning for the individual in this organisation.

Dislikes

No dislikes.

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

Variety of portals available to learn and develop your skills. Company culture is good. Good company ethics and compliance.

Dislikes

Many fresher candidates are on bench for more than 1.5 years from their onboarding. Freshers are not getting any project, no work. Cognizant not a good choice for freshers. Try other competitive companies and also check their track record for freshers. Appraisal cycle is delayed due to recession and budget. Promotion of many employees is getting postponed and delayed.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.