Cognizant Programmer Analyst Reviews

Likes

1)Good Number of Projects available. 2) Co-operative Colleagues &Senior leadership. 3)Your Voice is Valued. 4)Work Life Balance. 5)Canteen and office Environment is best. 6)Learning is always in parallel with the job, you can learn about new technical domains as well as area of interest.

Dislikes

1)Could Have better Salary Compensation. Like you are an old staff then you are getting comparatively low salary in terms of people hired from different companies with same experience. 2)Not Sure they have exams for increasing the salary structure or not but as of now I haven't seen an instance that someone changed from a domain and got salary increment. 3)WFO : They could've given WFH for staffs with low salary as they are getting very low salary and then they have to rent house and everything for their livelihood which cost pretty high and ultimately it hampers the mental state of the employee because he can't manage the salary for their personal needs and their desires because he don't have money in his pocket....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 4 days/week from office from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Nothing to like about this company

Dislikes

0 work life balance Even if you live thousands of kms away they will drag you to come to office And forget about good salary or promotion Join this company only if you want to destroy your life and your mental health

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Depends on your home manager, some are really supportive. 5-6 hours required from office (depends on the project), rest can be done from home, udemy access, cloud certifications

Dislikes

Salary is too low, only ceo earns good money, exploiting freshers and playing with their careers. They don't have many projects, so most of the time people will be on bench. Promotions are delayed/cancelled based on their convenience citing reasons like utilization is less (common sense- it is less because the company has less projects). Promotions criteria are increased if you satisfy previous required criteria. Hikes are less than peanuts. Company culture is bad, no festival celebration nothing. Work-life balance depends on the project; if you have a project, then you're overloaded with work and if you don't, you're overloaded with stress as they can terminate you anyday. FEW OF THE LATERAL HIREES ARE PUT ON BENCH AND LATER TERMINATED AFTER 6 MONTHS. JOIN ONLY IF YOU WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME AND CAREER....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

There is nothing I can remember to like

Dislikes

The culture was very bad, there was no work-life balance. The management was not supportive and tremendous rude with employees - Often calling on weekends and nightshifts. Managers used to glorify over work. The environment was like a dungeon. There is no growth for career except those who use to butter managers.

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.

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

Likes

I believe working in a company is totally depends on the project team with whom we are working. As per my team experience I don't have any issues with the people and the culture of the company. The teammates and seniors around me are helpful and also the manager is good, he always motivate us to grow more.

Dislikes

Some time when somebody need to change their work location for the clients need then company should provide sufficient facilities which company does not provide, this is something which is unexpected.

Likes

N/A

Dislikes

Bad company culture Slave system Compulsory WFO for 5 days a week 3%hike that too delayed by 6 months Toxic Managers Useless HRs Hired us through campus placements as programmer analyst and gave us service desk role. No training was provided by company and cheated us . We were around 1000+ who got the same support roles after being selected as programmer analyst from campus.

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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.