Cognizant reviews

4.0

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Cognizant has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 82,741 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
Sep 9, 2016
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Pros

none. No benefits and fake Company values.

Cons

Cognizant has demoted people from their positions of mentors, got with a regular process in the past, without any formal written communication but just with an oral one. I think that'is illegal. Employees are very disappointed and pretty angry here and are leaving the Company because they are frustrated. Targets suddenly have been increased of 10% without a bonus review and a proper communication. Moreover Top Performers in spite their recorded excellent work, engagement and interviews, are not progressing, while people not so talented that are just good friends of the important people are getting this kind of fake open positions. Top performers seem unrealistically to be punished for their good performance because are useful just for productivity purposes. Open positions are just fake. The Management is demotivating people and the metric of Quality even if apparently good, is fake and is not really in compliance with the Policy. Qcers in fact were asked from the Management a few months ago to not put many errors and to be very flexible in order to meet the SLA. The position of Qcer too then has become senseless and frustrating. Please investigate as soon as possible. GOOGLE...IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT????

2.0
Feb 27, 2020
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Pros

Most of the people are highly talented and friendly. The main office environment is great. Some client sites, not so much.

Cons

The talent is hindered by traditional consulting type-A personalities (hiding in hoodies or brogues) who swagger around saying lots of deep insightful words, but deliver little and spend lots of time playing at politics to protect their jobs. Try and challenge them and you'll find yourself with a P45. If they loose a client due to incompetence, you'll also find yourself looking elsewhere. This is less a factor of the recent Cognizant takeover (which has caused typical) disruption, but a problematic leadership sub-culture that has developed over recent years. I hope it gets addressed and protected from the arrogance-driven culture that is a feature of every large consulting firm.

1.0
Sep 20, 2018

Joke of a Company

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Pros

Absolutely nothing: full slavery for peanuts!!!

Cons

- They pay peanuts - No Relocation Package for people coming from abroad. You have to find your accommodation, open the bank account and go to the public offices for opening the fiscal code ALONE. - They pay the cafeteria vouchers after 3 months. But normally we eat every day, not after 3 months - They keep hiring africans and fresh graduated people, because they are cheap. It does not matter if they hire monkeys!!! - You will be just a call taker: the second level is in India, the management is in India, your life depends from India. But we are in European Union or not? - There are just a couple of Spanish and Italians caming from abroad. All the rest are Hungarians, African and Indians. - It is a BPO company: because of Cognizant people from West Europe are without jobs, because the salary in Hungary is 1/3 of West Europe, so everybody offshores in Cognizant. This is not legal, also because everything that counts is in India. In Budapest they have just call takers. - You will take 40 calls per day, and you will work for several projects at the same time. The clients don't know such horrible policy. - You don't have the time to troubleshoot, because they give the limit of 10 minutes per call. - No career. You will die as call taker.

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