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Ravi Kumar S

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4.0
Apr 10, 2009
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Pros

Plenty of projects, so no dearth of work. Good NA relocation policy. Flexibility offered to move across projects and verticals. Good training material and knowledge base in e-learning and certifications. Health benefits are good. Bench period offered between projects is good. Stock plan is good. CTSH shares are always above 20 dollars. Green card policy is good. Diversity in business is good. It is not totally dependent on any sector

Cons

You will Suffer from low self esteem if you are from premier league universities of India or america. Not proud to be with Cognizant., service industry slavery, Exploitation of people in US who are on L1 visa. Cognizant is mostly into Testing. It should rename itself to Cognizant Testing Services. In media they say that they recruit MBAs from top schools to offer them challenging roles, but those ppor chaps are made to do manual testing or maintenance crap, albeit for a higher salary. At present Cognizant is laying off people secretly in the US. It should not do like this. Instead it should sent its US associates to India in this crisis.

4.0
Mar 14, 2009
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Pros

Career growth. opportunities in techincal areas , self development and traveling to Europe/US.

Cons

The rotation plan or transfer for senior associates is what is targetted by sr. management.

3.0
Jan 23, 2009
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Pros

Cognizant has lot of big clients, once a project goes down they take care of relocating to the other states or cities whichever is applicable. As such is good for people dont mind moving between states and cities. Even during the bad times during 2002 when the market was not doing good, the did not send employees out but instead reduced the bonus payments without reducing the basepay. They try their level best to help the couples working with Cognizant, by giving job openings as close as possible. Good resort for the aspirants of US PR.

Cons

Before joining negotiate the salary after which it seldom changes. The support group is having less people, which they are working on currently. not sure how it is at this moment. There are times I had to wait for 10 months to get reimbursement settlement. Promotion, Salary will be a big problem for the employees. There are some practices which will be cumbersome.

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