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
Mar 28, 2018
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Pros

- DevOps technology stack is the norm, there is no place for manual tasks in performing operational tasks. Quite well automated, rather solid solutions. - they are open to working from home occasionally.

Cons

- Credential management for access inside the company or towards customer's data center is awful : shared accounts, user and passwords flying around over slack channels with tens of employees in it. Considering the operated product (AEM) with customer sensitive data, a sound customer will terminate the contract with them yesterday. - no training, induction or context, tasks are dumped over your head, often with past due date deadlines - holacracy is used by management to throw the responsibility on employees' shoulders. Real decision is only taken by "seniors", often called so due to the "I was here first" factor, not the field expertise or anything else. - there is a huge difference from the emphasized values and the real applied ones. Sure, they are "open to feedback" you can say whatever you want, they are listening. The acting, doesn't exist though, if you say the same things over several months of no change, it is your problem, you complain too much. - The bonus.ly is used as a means of "tipping" the colleagues that made favors to you ... This reveals Netcentric's motivational bias : rewards and punishment for obedience. When this does not work, then some manipulation and attempt to make the employee feel guilty. - Discrimination is not allowed, unless you are "senior", and can bully people for not being religious and such ... No one acts on the bullying, even after repeated complaints, furthermore, some of the management does bullying too. - Most people leaving are saying very often the same thing : "I'm tired of doing Senior work and being paid/treated as a Junior". - The ideal Netcentric employee would be having a sycophantic eagerness to please the ones above (yeah, they do exist, in their "flat" hierarchy) , a little bit of a liar, yesmen eventually work 24/7 and ask for more work. - The criteria set for career growth isn't met for 80% of the higher grades :). Feels more like a way to block advance of the newer employees which are better prepared than the higher grades.

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Thank you for taking the time to write your review, as one of our most important core values is “give-and-accept-feedback”. Holacracy and Bonus.ly has worked well for us in empowering our employees to be the best that they can be. Holacracy is not your typical organisational structure and therefore, might not be for everyone. We’ve embedded this into our culture to promote transparency and give more autonomy to teams and individuals, empowering employees to make meaningful decisions. Every employee has a role to play in everyday decision making. We encourage employees to approach their colleagues and team leads to have a 2-way conversation so that we can all make meaningful decisions together. Bonus.ly gives employees an opportunity to recognise their own peers and reward them for a job well done. We do provide a good onboarding program for all newcomers. We’ve also offered training and different learning opportunities, and are currently building a curriculum of both technical and soft skills training courses. We are on the journey to improving as we grow. We will take your feedback on-board. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
1.0
Jul 26, 2017

Worst Company. Please don't join. Worst people in Ameriprise project

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Pros

Good infrastructure Washrooms were clean. (Some branches) Get paychecks every month.

Cons

There are lot of. 1. No proper lateral hiring. 2. For laterals also, they will be putting on some tool based support project. 3. No proper trainings. 4. Clients harassment. Especially Ameriprise Hyderabad. They don't have professionalism. They will literally speak bad words in telugu to Cognizant employes. 5. Management will not take any action.they are dumb. 6. HR will not take actions to any complaints. 7. Managers and team leads literally comment on women employees (sexual harassment) 8. Being a lady manager, she will not support lady employees. Instead of that , she supports other managers only. 9. Even Directors and associate directors behave very cheap.(commenting on lady employees) 10. Security and other infrastructure teams acts like they are CEO 's of the company. No respect given to associates. 11. Managers shouts loud in ODC with cheap standard mindset for no reason. Just for show off. Treat you as slave. Expect you to work 12 hours per day. No hikes or promotions. 12. More politics in Ameriprise. Please don't join this project. Managers mentality is very cheap. 14 client directors and client team leads will behave like road side worst fellows almost observing lady employees and commenting about their body structure. ( No other work ) 15. They expect you to work 12 hours per day. Simply smile and polite irrespective of their behaviour / treatment. 16. There is no job safety. 17. HR acts as a puppet to the managers. 18. No good projects. Most of them are support projects ( tools)

5.0
Mar 7, 2016

QA Team Lead

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Pros

Good working culture, that is one reason I have been with Cognizant for more than 11+ years

Cons

Company is doing very good each quarter in terms of profit year after year, but still they do the minimal hike to employees. Other draw back thing is, their appraisal cycle sucks. Whatever you do or contribute, it behaves like Indian government reservation quota, so not all star performers will be rewarded, because you do not have quota for this year, will try next year :-)

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