Terrible company to work for. - Senior Process Executive Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Jan 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

PTO is decent. Not much else.

Cons

Pay is terrible. Most recent raise was $0.16. They got rid of incentive bonuses and shortened parental leave once they acquired QDS from Nuance. Promised things would be business as usual then terminated 3/4 of the staff by trying to make things fully AI. Meanwhile clients suffer and are unhappy. Poor leadership. Terrible benefits. Work is unfairly audited by falsifying errors or purposely waiting until the last day of the month to submit a poor audit so you don’t have a chance to redeem yourself. Employees were consistently receiving scores of 98-100% for YEARS but now that jobs are on the line suddenly QDS are getting QA scores of 95%.

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5.0
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Pros

Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

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3.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Cognizant can be a great place to work at. You have to be self-motivated and driven. You won't often be given a script on how to do your job well. But if you are willing to search for new opportunities, you will find success.

Cons

Just like many other tech companies, layoffs are happening all the time. This often brings many projects to a complete halt. Management never communicates when someone is laid off. And when they are laid off, they often never back fill positions, leaving existing team members working the equivalent of three jobs at once. Most teams there are skeleton crews, ensuring that they cannot reach their full potential.

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