Cognizant reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

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Cognizant has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 83,034 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
Jan 13, 2021

Sadly Disappointing

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Pros

Good people to work with

Cons

Management execs have no idea what is going on under the bonnet. It’s an old boys network and they protect each other and throw others under the bus. Poor tools and a very immature ITIL profile. You are a star one month and out on your ear the next.

1.0
Oct 31, 2019
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Pros

The best experience I had was the free 3 week vacation

Cons

First of all, when you get hired you are not told where you are working because it’s a consulting company. However, they tell you during your training that you will know before the training ends where you are working. I went through a 3 week training with 30 individuals in which NONE of us were placed by the end of training. After going through multiple interviews with clients for a month I was placed on a project with an internal client. The perk of being a consultant is being able to bill your client, but working internally I did not get that option and the company does not compensate for this. I worked nearly 12 hours a day, having to do all my managers work when he was busy dealing with personal stuff and all of the offshores work that they didn’t feel like doing. My manager never had anything positive to say, I was verbally abused everyday. Also he would take credit for all my work and present it to higher ups as his own. However, when there was negative feedback he would then copy me in the email chain telling the whole department that is was my fault, even times when the work was his own. There is no communication between anyone at this company! After my project date got pushed back multiple times and my manager leaving half way through because his visa got denied, I got an email telling me my project was ended and to not come in anymore. I had 5 weeks to find a new project, apparently, where no one contacted me with projects in my location. After the 5 weeks was up, I received a call from a random women at 7pm telling me that I was fired. This company is a joke. Extremely unprofessional and has no regard for their employees. They hired 80 new college graduates but can’t find me a client to work for. They will continue to hire and fire recently graduated college students , it’s a vicious cycle.

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