Cognizant reviews

3.5

71% would recommend to a friend

(82,730 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 82,730 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

1. Independence 2. Entrepreneurial Spirit 3. Energy The management needs to be more open and communicative when it comes to bad news. Management does not project accurately all the capabilities it has. People on the street still compare the older management to the newer one unfairly. Not sure of the impact on the strett. IWorking in cognizant is very informal. Sometimes it needs to have some structure. Cognizant does foster a sense of community and makes people proud of being a Cognizant Employee. People take lot of pride in their work and

Cons

1. Too one-dimensional in culture 2. Penny Pinching attitude

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Key points: Young organization & youthful campus, flexible work hours, ability to suggest freely your ideas/improvement to work , doing great stuffs early in career, bigger responsibility if you can take and prove a point even if you are yet to be in that role in later part of your career, respect for individuals, work ethics, subsidized lunch, belief in competencey over no. of years of experience, work-life balance, open work culture, reward and recognition for doing right thing at right time, better international assignments and exposure, plenty of client facing role in early career, imense opportunity to get more exposure to domain knowldge along with your technical career.

Cons

almost zero recreation facility in campus, average employee benefits policy, too much customer loyality kills emplyee loyality at times, less no. of high end consulting and design related projects, More biased to mamagement roles than technical roles, not so great compensation, very limited team outings, insufficient external / sponsered training programs

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