Cognizant reviews

- CTS is not into management consulting. This isn't a "con" by itself but it is a "con" if you'd believed this based on a campus presentation. Majority of "consulting" is business analysis for developing software. For people not familiar with that, it's talking to client employees to understand what they need out of a particular software and then passing the info to the technical team. It's tougher than it sounds. Obviously, IT background folks have a good starting advantage. - work outside of business analysis will mostly be related to secondary research and pre-sales i.e. preparing ppts and docs. This does not change mostly till you're promoted twice so be prepared for "backend" grind and being ordered by people who can "fail" an IQ test (only a mild exaggeration) - Your salary hike will at best, only match that year's campus salary (at offshore) ie if you got a massive hike to a new salary of Rs x that's probably because the salaries being offered on campus were >= Rs x - Unless you're onsite, do not expect client facing role in business development - Given how fast it's growing (and how massive it already is), career advancement is fast becoming an issue similar to larger IT peers (still better than them so - refer #1 in Pros) - unlike other integrated consulting firms, consulting arms are tied into delivery organizations (the ones which develop software) ie your consulting bosses report into delivery bosses. Don't know how this helps building an independent consulting organization at all (refer to my review headline) but I guess that's not even the goal here.

Management needs to understand work-life balance.