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      Cognizant

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      3.1

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (82,771 total reviews)
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      Ravi Kumar S

      38% approve of CEO

      36% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.9

      Career opportunities

      2.8

      Senior management

      Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 82,771 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognizant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.7 stars).

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      83K reviews
      2.0
      Apr 28, 2010

      My experience

      Associate consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good Market name for the company Good place for short term commitment Good place for beginners

      Cons

      Not a place for long timers - poor employee reimbursement structure for long timers. No revisions based on external market situations. Work-life balance - relates to the project that you end up on - mostly bad. No transparency on performance appraisal / Promotion process. Poor HR policies Favoritism / politics - however you name it. Employee voice never heard.

      1.0
      Apr 28, 2010

      From the perspective of MBA grads

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you can get into Account Management or Sales 1. The organization defines only the goals and gives you the ability to decide about the best approach to achieve it. 2. Very much results driven

      Cons

      If you by chance land into anything other than account management / sales that is most likely cognizant business consulting 1. The organization does not know how to utilize you and does not make any effort to listen to any of your ideas. 2. You would get a designation of consultants / sr consultants etc but would get billed as QA tester / junior system analyst roles because the company can not get true consulting projects. So you can never work on something that defines your KRA. 3. In case you let the leadership team know that they could have hired a humanities graduate to perform the same role you will be blacklisted. 4. Even if you go beyond your role to take up large program management you are not recognized as program management is not one of your KRA. 5. Your work has a direct impact on the account manager but he does not appraise you. 6. You are appraised by a CBC lead whose only task is to bill you to your next assignment and he is not affected by your work performance. so in a nutshell the account manager who is directly affected by your work does not have an ability to give you promotion / raise and the CBC lead who has this ability does not have any stake linked to your deliverables.

      3.0
      Apr 28, 2010

      A good company to work,if you have a good manager

      Programme analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      They have a good client base. Growing company If you have a good manager,as in who has no typical buerocratic ego with him,you will get good review You might get chance to travel to onsite locations.

      Cons

      Might keep you on bench for the longest time. Heards that Infosys,PSPL had better training programes than Cognizant. Compensation sucks!

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