Cognizant reviews

3.5

71% would recommend to a friend

(82,735 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 82,735 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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4.0
May 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Valladolid (Spain) -> Working environment is perfect, all the workers are nice people. Lot of learning courses. Opportunities abroad. If the customer requires extra hours, they are paid, something difficult in Spain.

Cons

The salary on Spain is not really good for a programmer or a programmer analyst. Also the new location of the office is not good, 20 km from Valladolid.

3.0
Dec 2, 2024

Good work-life balance

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Flexible working hours that support work-life balance. - Opportunities for personal and professional development through various learning initiatives. - Decent benefits, though they may fall short compared to the packages offered by leading tech companies.

Cons

- Salaries are comparatively low for similar roles in other tech companies. - Career progression and salary increases can be challenging to achieve. - The implementation of Holacracy often contradicts its core principles of no formal management. In practice, you may find yourself reporting to multiple "managers" such as circle leads, project managers, account managers, senior teammates, HR, or your PSL. This creates unnecessary complexity and, at times, fosters a micromanagement culture. - The integration with Cognizant poses significant challenges. While Netcentric prides itself on being agile with a flat hierarchy, Cognizant operates with a bureaucratic and hierarchical structure, which often clashes with Netcentric’s core values and culture.

3.0
Jul 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Consolidated company with a strong client base and a well established technology areas with very competent people

Cons

Poor management, the executive leadership team does not deliver the promises they do to their employees when saying they want to be the employer of choice, most of the senior leadership is more worried to keep and save their jobs and don't even understand the business or what's going on at the field, highly bureaucratic making people to give up before starting anything, the company does not recognize the people's effort at all.

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