Cognizant reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(83,052 total reviews)
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Cognizant has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 83,052 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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3.0
Feb 20, 2018
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Pros

Good benefits, great company culture.

Cons

Quite possibly the worst training I have ever head the displeasure of experiencing. They promise you the world and patronize you, only to underdeliver with poor training practices, and sufficient training to begin with. The trainers (minus one wonderful gentleman who, our class unfortunately did not get as a trainer, but did get to receive a lesson or two from), clearly do not know enough of the job to be teaching it. Interestingly enough, two of them are washouts from the training department of another company I used to work at several years ago, and it looks like they haven't improved much either. Management, at least as far as the training department is concerned, is bizarrely incompetent. An absolute joke. Even mentors and leads already on the floor admitted that currently implemented training standards were unfair, and unrealistic expectations, which is true, as after doing some shadowing, the general work on a day to day basis is easy as pie. I wont even get into inconsistencies, flip-flopping of company policy, contradicting information received from trainer to trainer, and the general dependency of your job on the opinion of people who have never even underwent the the strenuous training and requirements they now require from new hires.

2.0
Jan 12, 2018

Just a number

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Cognizant purchased the company that I worked for. The good thing for us is they let us keep our PTO and tried to not disrupt the company as much as possible. Since the acquisition I'm lucky to not have been "benched" or laid off. If you get benched you have 7 weeks to find a new project in the company. That is good.

Cons

I feel like Cognizant doesn't put too much emphasis on employee satisfaction. The coffee/break room supplies and general office supplies are very cheap compared to what they used to be.

1.0
Jan 10, 2018
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Pros

Good parking. Cafe onsite. Decent pay. Decent benefits.

Cons

Attrition of experienced staff has taken its toll and most teams are skeletal at best. Back fill of those positions has been 18+ months in the waiting. At its core, this is a consulting company, so there is extreme pressure to complete tasks versus providing long term sustainable solutions.

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