Cognizant reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(83,018 total reviews)
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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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2.0
Apr 29, 2025
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Pros

They're too large of a company to keep a close eye on you, so at least you can mostly do your work for your client.

Cons

The prior company I worked for was bought by Cognizant during the pandemic. It took Cognizant several years to on-board us, and when they finally did, they considered us "new employees" despite how long we'd been with our previous company. Because of this, we had no banked PTO at the start, and any progress towards job promotions were now irrelevant. Company makes no effort to assist you in finding your next project. They instruct you to apply through their internal job portal, as if you're applying for an external job anyways. Some random workers do submit project leads on your behalf, but I'm convinced they just do this to meet quotas because none of the jobs even remotely match your listed skill sets. They only reach out to you when they actively need something, and often it's to tell you that your just assigned learning task is due tomorrow. Even then your name is but 1 of hundreds in the included excel doc. They're primarily based in India, so email communications and meeting invites tend to be sent around 3 AM.

1.0
Mar 23, 2025

DO NOT WORK HERE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They pay a little more than other jobs in the area when I started

Cons

- Pay does not keep pace - Most of the off-shore team is incompetent - Unattainable Deadlines and no assistance with completing them - Does not properly staff sites - Actively destroys the clients IT environment I would not recommend anyone hire this company or work for them. They are actively terrible at what they do and how they operate. The company claims to be a US company when it is an Indian MSP.

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