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      3.1

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (82,944 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 82,944 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
      Jul 29, 2015

      Hard working people, deceiving leadership

      Associate project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are some very hard working people willing to go to whatever length is necessary to ensure team success

      Cons

      Upper leadership is deceiving (not all, there are some good people here including the chief executive however nothing is done to eliminate the poor management), especially to get you in the door, and once in be aware that higher promotions are much more politically based than other companies. Value of employees is judged by higher management using metrics that often times the employees have no ability to influence over and don't even consult the employee's supervisor (example, if you don't write the contract or have any say in it how can you be responsible for it not having good enough margins or utilization?)

      1.0
      Jun 9, 2015

      Treat employees and clients like crap

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pros are the people and companies you work with and working with the product.

      Cons

      management is largly Indian with their Indian culture - they care not about employees or clients. They are pushy and demanding and expect you to have no life outside of work. I worked there for 4 years as a full time perm developer in Core and was laid off with severance when new management. Then again as a contractor for SI for 6 months and no warning when terminated. Same story. Former founder left the company back when things were no longer in his control and since then this company has gone the way of greed.

      1.0
      Apr 18, 2015

      Associate Director, Enterprise Applications Practice

      Associate director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Not a single good thing found compared to CSC, ORACLE, GE and Other US companies where I worked, led and managed the products and services.

      Cons

      1. Dominated by south indian tamils especially in the leadership role, do not let any other language person, caste person to enter. 2. No creative thinking, Not a good place for one who has top 3 MBA graduate with secured 15 US patents and built 100+ million dollar revenue. 3. Quality of the Leadership team and internal operational efficiency is simply way below the standard. 4. Casteism, Language exists. Top Management and Senior do not have any leadership abilities, it is a cowardship. 5. You will report to someone who is way below your capability, Cognizant looks at immediate placement to the client, not really focus on candidate's complete potential.

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