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: 1. **Diverse Opportunities:** Cognizant offers a range of projects across various industries, which can help employees gain diverse experience and develop new skills. 2. **Career Growth:** The company emphasizes professional development with training programs, certifications, and career advancement opportunities. 3. **Global Presence:** Working with clients and teams around the world provides a broad perspective and the chance to engage in international projects. 4. **Work-Life Balance:** Many employees find that Cognizant promotes a healthy work-life balance with flexible working arrangements. 5. **Innovative Environment:** The company encourages innovation and stays at the forefront of technology trends, offering employees the chance to work on cutting-edge projects. 6. **Supportive Culture:** Cognizant often promotes a collaborative and supportive work environment, fostering teamwork and mutual respect. These aspects contribute to a positive work experience for many employees at Cognizant....Read More
1. **Workload and Pressure:** Some employees may experience high workloads and pressure, especially during peak project phases or tight deadlines. 2. **Bureaucracy:** In large organizations like Cognizant, navigating bureaucratic processes and hierarchies can sometimes be challenging and slow. 3. **Career Advancement:** There can beconcerns about the pace of career progression and the need for clearer pathways for promotions and role changes. 4. **Compensation and Benefits:** Employees might feel that compensation and benefits could be more competitive compared to industry standards. 5. **Work-Life Balance:** Despite efforts to promote balance, some roles may still involve long hours or demanding schedules that impact work-life balance. 6. **Management Variability:** Experiences with management can vary widely, with some employees finding their interactions with leaders less supportive or effective than desired. These aspects can vary by individual experience and specific role within the company....Read More
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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IT Security Department
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Good infrastructure and provide cab services for associates.
Very less % hike even with a good rating.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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I like every thing in cognizant
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Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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Pay wise very low
More support projects
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Well, I like to say in this company, work environment is good and in this pandemic situation our company take care us and giving salary on time and one of the most important thing is employee safety is their first priority
I don't have any dislike , but one thing please provide office chairs to us, because very difficult to work from home, facing some health issues
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Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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IT Consulting Department
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Overall good experience, thank u
Good experience
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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No stress
No good projects and compensations
Very bad for those who are at initial stages of their careee
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Management is very good and supportive
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Software Development Department
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It is very good place to work ... And for your work you will be getting rewarded... You have 100% work life balance in all the projects because of good culture every employee will be in a positive relationship.. which results a good place to work
No Dislikes ... There are few but not worthy to comment
Work days: Monday to Friday
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IT Consulting Department
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Learning and nothing else.
No job security is here..they suddenly release you from project and you will not get project. Bench period is very bad. After some days Hr will terminate you.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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I appreciate the collaborative environment at Cognizant, where learning and sharing knowledge are highly encouraged. The company offers plenty of growth opportunities and exposure to diverse technologies, such as Salesforce and more, which helps in continuous skill development. Also I became GenC next here right after one year and got all the timely increments and promotions.
While Cognizant offers a lot of growth opportunities, the fast-paced environment can sometimes lead to high work pressure, and balancing multiple projects can be challenging. Additionally, the communication between teams could be improved for smoother project coordination.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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No work life balance at all and management is not good.
Lack of work life balace they have policy of 10 hrs working on top of that management is asking to work more than that. Other MNC companies in the market have 9 hrs working
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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If joined as a fresher then too many learning opportunities will be there. If worked hard and learned all necessary skills as a fresher then environment will remain good.
If joined as a fresher and didn't developed necessary skills then layoff is fixed. Project interviews will be tough. Some manager will own you whereas some projects and people of projects are actually good. So it's like 50/50.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Software Development Department
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Work Life Balance. But still it depends on the project you are working on.
No Job Security. No flexibility within the management and reportee...incompetent/worst HR and Management,Worst project allocation process.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Technology / IT Department
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DevOps Department
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doesn't matter how hard you work, you wont get good rating and hike will be delayed everytime and no skills development.
Work policy: 2 days/week from office
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
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Software Development Department
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Work policy: 2 days/week from office
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IT Consulting Department
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Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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IT Infrastructure Services Department
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My friend joined 2 months ago then later they put her in bench saying budget problem
No promotion they keep switching Projects one to another another to one so they will keep saying that budget problem and they will hire another.
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Customer Success Department
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I have upskilled a lot after joining cognizant the trainings and mentors were so good I enjoyed working at cognizant. I regret leaving this company
Nothing
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Technology / IT Department
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Learning scope is good. You have a dedicated platform to explore and learn the skill of your choice at your convenience.
Promotion cycle/criteria changes recently adopted (Internal Job Moves) - allowing supervisors to promote the resources to next level without a specific criteria. This is creating official platform for favourability.
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IT Support Department
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One good thing is they will not touch your job until you're on project.
You need to be girl or manager's assistance to get promotion. Once you come to bench you're all gonee!!
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Non Voice Department
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Working at cognizant really helps me a lot both in personal and professional way .The work life balance & company culture was good and the allowances they provide apart from the salary was excellent...I really enjoyed my 3 years at Cognizant.
One thing I dislike about these companies are there is no guarantee of job security...they will pick 10/15 employees and moved them to different project within the company (internal movement)..which I think is a part of business but needs to be reviewed....
Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.
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Business Process Quality Department
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Great process exposure, smooth hiring process, extended work from home tenure during lockdown, good floor environment (colleagues and Aquantances).
Long work hours/ no work life balance, rudest possible SDM - almost held vendetta against the staff (process specific), internal politics and favoritism (process specific),
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Digital Marketing Department
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As a whole cognizant is excellent. They provide excellent skill development.
At Hyderabad location a manager called sankalp is very rude and very miss behaved person and a manager called simran they both handle google projects since they both are friends. They have favouritism in them very worst managers because of them many employees drop. And cognizant is loosing its name.
Work policy: No hybrid structure all 5 days there was wfo.
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Voice / Blended Department
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Healthcare process -:Management is racist, womaniser. Regional language (marathi) is not allowed on floor. Wherein management will speak Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malyali languages which is not regional according to them. Even if company is in Pune Maharashtra they strictly inform not to speak in marathi as management is not Maharashtrian.If they hate marathi language why are they living in Maharashtra , they should go to their native State. Promotion are only for female employes, lickers 😛🍑 chatus and for others who bring 🥃🍺 for management. Leaves are given only to favourite emp. Even if medical documents are submitted they will apply NCNS. People who are issued warning letter for abusing on floor, fighting on floor are given promotion as they are favourite,lickiers 😛🍑chatus. Management has created there own family on floor which includes bhai, behne, bhabhi, devar, jeth, jethani, nand, soutan and Big Daddy. Management needs full gossip of every employe. Management watches reels and do videos call on floor and says mobile is not allowed to employees. Favouritism is the policy followed by management. Markdowns will be reverted only for favourite and lickers 😛🍑 chatu employees. False hopes given to retain employees. Personal grudges are kept if u don't become slave of the management....Read More
Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)
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Software Development Department
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Competitive Salary offered to lateral joiners. Work life balance is good but yes it depends on project to project.
Promotions are very less here
Work policy: 3 days/week from office
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Better work-life balance after Covid. High learning curve and standards Environment would be better when compared with other tech giants
Promotion cycle Hike
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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