Cognizant reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(82,812 total reviews)
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Cognizant has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 82,812 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
May 17, 2018

Worst company I’ve ever worked for

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Pros

Ability to work from home, decent health benefits, some interesting projects and good potential career growth but only if you’re first starting out No other pros to list.

Cons

I was treated like absolute garbage while working at Cognizant. I was berated regularly by the VP in my department who was an extremely demeaning person and nobody seemed to care that I was regularly being treated this way. No work life balance and a horrible toxic culture. Worst company I’ve ever worked for.

1.0
May 9, 2018
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Pros

Laid back environment. Free lunch on Friday at Teaneck, NJ location.

Cons

So, so many. Management is horrible; they need training. Cutting throat environment where people will stab you in the back to get ahead. A lot, and I mean - a lot of favoritism. Quantity always takes precedence over quality. If you're a quality person, definitely not a place for you as you will be highly disturbed with the mess you'll encounter. You won't be valued for your high morals and professional work ethics. As a matter of fact, you will be punished for it. Some managers are the worst I've seen in the industry, highly unprofessional, not very knowledgeable, but are rude and disrespectful. If you're not Indian, you won't be company's favorite, guaranteed. They favor Indians. You will be undervalued, underappreciated, and mistreated. And their salaries are below market. All in all, very bad place. You'll hate going into work every day. Promotion is impossible to get.

1.0
Apr 4, 2018

Ridicules management and chaos in PT team

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Pros

The colleagues with who we started are amazing and for sure they were worth to stay. Higher salary compared to the market. Flexible working time.

Cons

-New management is missing experience -PT TL is mocking and insulting on the floor (no experience at all) -PT TL has also no process knowledge -no opportunities to grow within the company - also not after 18 months -no bonus or incentives monthly or quarterly (yearly bonus is a joke) -no site management at all -no HR visible (1 person in Krakow, the rest in Gdansk) -low level recruitment (from agent till management) -Company is not interested to keep the good performers (a bunch is leaving because of the current situation) -Portuguese TL has lack in his own language -Travel cost which were promised is not kept -after management change, no structure at all on site -no future plans sharing -feedback is a "no go" as we are never receiving any -Salary negotiation is not possible (even after 18 months)

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