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Cognizant Programmer Analyst 1 Reviews

Updated 13 Feb, 2025

Overall Rating

3.8/5

based on 39 reviews

Rating distribution

12 (30.8%)

13 (33.3%)

11 (28.2%)

0 (0%)

3 (7.7%)

Category Ratings

3.9

Job security

3.9

Skill development

3.7

Company culture

3.7

Work-life balance

3.6

Work satisfaction

3.4

Promotions

3.3

Salary

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Monday to Friday

90% employees reported

Flexible timing

71% employees reported

No travel

71% employees reported

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4.0

Rated by Women

13 reviews

3.6

Rated by Men

24 reviews

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Programmer Analyst 1 in Nalgonda

Full Time

IT Consulting Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

2.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 21 Jul 2024

Likes

In time salary credit and they will provide certificate courses based on your working technology

Skill development - Good

Dislikes

Work is more and need to work more than 12 hrs per day and if u don't do certification they won't give rating and hike even u perform higher quality in ur project. And need to give sessions to the teams if not they won't give rating

Company culture - Poor

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Programmer Analyst 1 in Noida

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 04 Jan 2024

Likes

Work culture

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

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Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Programmer Analyst 1 in Noida

Full Time

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 05 Jan 2024

Likes

Nice culture

Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Less projects in the company

Work Details

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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Programmer Analyst 1 in Kolkata

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 30 Sep 2023

Likes

Good to work here,you can learn a lot.

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Promotion is late. Personal hr is not there here ,if you have any issues related to project and health you cant say this things to manager .

Programmer Analyst 1 in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 06 Nov 2023

Likes

Great place for freshers

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Pune

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

1.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 12 Sep 2023

Likes

Work load not too much, environment very good, opportunity to skills up all courses are free on udemy.

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

Job security very worst, you can not believe what will happen next month if you have no project, because of 35000 innocent employees were fired this year and i am one of them 😔.

Job security - Bad

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

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

Programmer Analyst 1 in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

1.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

2.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

3.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 02 Apr 2023

Likes

Good projects, good learning facilities

Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

No help from team, promotion, hike and bonus very secretive and very few people have clear idea of new policies.

Salary - Bad
Promotions - Poor

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Programmer Analyst 1 in Pune

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

2.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

2.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 06 Aug 2023

Likes

Good environment

Salary - Good
Job security - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

Less exposure to improve skills

Skill development - Poor
Work satisfaction - Poor

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Programmer Analyst 1 in Chennai

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 07 Jun 2023

Likes

For the freshers CTS is good

Skill development - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

Have not much Project for PA level

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Technology / IT Department

1.0

Overall Rating

1.0

Category Ratings

1.0

Salary

1.0

Skill development

1.0

Job security

1.0

Promotions

1.0

Work satisfaction

1.0

Company culture

1.0

Work-life balance

posted on 05 Jun 2023

Likes

Over stress

Dislikes

Work life balance is not possible is some projects

Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

IT Consulting Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

2.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

2.0

Work satisfaction

2.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 31 Mar 2023

Likes

Learning environment is good.

Salary - Good
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good

Dislikes

No growth for freshers. All most all are support project

Skill development - Poor
Work satisfaction - Poor
Company culture - Poor

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 14 May 2023

Likes

I am very happy to working at Cognizant because Team communication and working is good and also helping each other.

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

Nothing

Programmer Analyst 1 in Chennai

Full Time

IT Infrastructure Services Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

1.0

Company culture

2.0

Work-life balance

posted on 09 Oct 2022

Likes

Salary on time, high end laptop provided for wfh,

Skill development - Good
Job security - Good

Dislikes

Project management is worst, no work life balance

Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Poor

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Chennai

Full Time

UI / UX Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 03 May 2022

Likes

There is always something new everyday to learn while your are working in cognizant.

Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

As a part of a mobile development team. It is essential for team leader or manager to provide a device which would be beneficial for the project work .

Work Details

As i have been working from home from my initial days , i would say they have a promising work culture.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 08 Aug 2022

Likes

My manager and my team leader was very supportive for me in both technical side and personal side.

Salary - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

People just get stuck in the same circle as long as they work in cognizant. I had an interest in analytics and I was not given that department instead I got development which I didn't like. I got out of cognizant to get analytics.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

IT Support Department

1.0

Overall Rating

1.0

Category Ratings

1.0

Salary

1.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

1.0

Promotions

1.0

Work satisfaction

1.0

Company culture

1.0

Work-life balance

posted on 07 Jun 2022

Likes

Nothing specific

Job security - Good

Dislikes

There I no development, most likely you will be given a support role and there are many politics internally

Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad

Work Details

Depends on you home manager and project manager...

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Programmer Analyst 1 in Chennai

Full Time

Information Technology Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

1.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

2.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

2.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 27 Jun 2022

Likes

Lucky to have a good manager.

Dislikes

Career growth, compensation

Salary - Bad
Promotions - Poor
Company culture - Poor

Work Details

Programmer Analyst

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

IT Consulting Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 10 Apr 2023

Likes

Everything will be excellent

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst 1 in Chennai

Full Time

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 28 May 2022

Likes

Opportunity to Learn lot in CTS

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Programmer Analyst 1 in Pune

Full Time

Business Intelligence & Analytics Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 09 Apr 2022

Likes

Company policy

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Nothing

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday

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