Cognizant reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(83,018 total reviews)
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Ravi Kumar S

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100% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 83,018 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
Oct 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

None, everyone with any talent leaves or is trying to.

Cons

The work is dull and unfulfilling, there are so many restrictions on every aspect of your day to day job mean you spend more time trying to find work arounds than you actually spend doing your job. The leadership team are only focused on themselves and dont care about anyone else, meaning no career progression, training or upskilling in anything relevant (you will however be forced to spend hours doing pointless training in something that has nothing to do with your job). HR is a joke. Commmunications are rude and aggressive. Lots of sly redundancies and a bench policy that basically is your entry point to redundancy where you have to beg for work and get let off if there isn't any available - not something you expect to have to do when you take on a permanent job. Rubbish pay and the worst bonuses (if you even get one) that ive ever experienced, pay rises are promised and then dont materialise, so with inflation and cost of living, im actually worst off financially that when I started in the job. Ive never known such constant sick leave and people needing to be signed off for their mental health, which is completely understandable give the environment, but horrific that the company treats people so bad that this happens. I would leave in a heartbeat if the market wasn't so bad.

2.0
Jun 23, 2025

CTS Sales

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Standard SI company. Even tier-2 SI and boutique firms are better. Comp is better but they make you work double the hours.

Cons

Heavy Politics - Culture of pleading than performance and numbers. Onshore delivery capability is weak. Sales leadership is reports into practice delivery experience people who have zero understanding of Sales GTM. Commissions are paid out March every year. If you leave or company does layoff, entire years commissions are withheld. Capped Commissions with fine print resulting in withholding of commission pay on large deals. Consistent Late night hours for US employees due to delivery, bid management and practice in India. 12-15 hour work weeks with no OT for exempt employees. Zero respect for time employee time. RFP process is archaic. No modern sales tools or processes. Alliances and partnerships channel is poor/inexistent. More pomp and show and complete cognitive dissonance from reality.

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