Good place to work - Senior Associate Cognizant Employee Review

4.0
Jan 27, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-good technical growth -good bidirectional growth structure which enhances your technical/domain skills -fair hike and best in the service industry package structure thru which you get maximum take home -flexible work timings -good onsite opportunities -nice work culture where you get fair amount of freedom on various things -various internal classroom training programs/online trainings

Cons

-since it is service oriented co. you get a chance to work on various technologies where you can not focus on one and be master of it.. -more weight on the development and deliveries rather processes which makes sometimes un-necessary pressure on the team..so still this co. needs some amount of time to get completely process oriented.

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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