Cognizant Tech Solutions Reviews

Pros

Opportunity to wok on different technologies and projects

Cons

Comparatively low salary.
Should be ready to work in any new technologies any time.

Advice to Senior Management

Show the same interest to retain the existing employees for hiring new

Pros

Great and very supportive senior management

Cons

CTC can be better, no policy for paying for extra hours worked.

Advice to Senior Management

extra hours put in my employees must be payed.

Pros

Good Salary
Good work-life balance
Good Onsite Opportunities

Cons

Being a Mass COmpany, Individual Growth is very difficult

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the Good Work..

Pros

Excellent Growth Opportunities
Ability to Experiment with Things
Greater location flexibility
Good Managers who treat employees like humans instead of Resources
Good Variable Pay

Cons

Long Promotions queues
Pay Scales & Revisions not as per the market standard
New hires are offered better pays than existing resources

Pros

Salary hike is good.
Worklife balance is good.
Good opportunity to complete few important certification and compny bears it.
Onsite opportunity is ok..

Cons

It's a good organization if you have a godfather. Though the organization policy is clarity, it is hardly followed. Everything-from promotion to onsite depnds on the top managemnt, and hardly depnds on the performance.

Advice to Senior Management

There should be much more clarity within the organization. The year end rating is not perfect reflection of the performance. Please check the promotion should not depend on the no. of years a person is in Cognizant, but on the performance of the individual.

Pros

- Good Incentives/Pay hikes
- Good for freshers who start their career in Cognizant
- Good for those who are hired in the US
- Periodic performance evaluation
- Blogs/forums/conducting training are encouraged for knowledge sharing
- Good administration, have dress code, desktop quality, etc.
- Lot of Corporate Social development activities..

Cons

Bad Project quality, bad planning
No Job Rotation; very difficult to change projects
Onsite Opportunity very few. Those working onsite stay permanently.
Inefficient Talent management

Advice to Senior Management

Talent management should be efficient in allocating right resource to the right projects. Recent changes in the reporting structure creates lot of confusion.
Often, poor project management leads to increased work load, overtime, and monotonous jobs. Strongly advice the management to bring up the quality of the projects at par with its tier 1 competitors.

Pros

Pays high to new joinees, but gives pennies to those who stay for long. Brand value and recognition for the employees outside cognizant is very high.

Cons

Human resource management always relies upon and follows the feedback given by its managers and individual employees' feedback, complaints are ignored or suppressed. You can be happy by the time you waive your tail infront of your manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Management hires people from across india, but is not able to preserve individual's self-respect and pride in the company. Decisions made by managers regarding project allocation and onsite opportunities are always biased towards people from particular community.

Pros

You can manage you work timings . No one questions when you come in and leave (But you would be working overtime 90% of time)
Employee friendly policies. Most of the managers are friendly
Good opportunities . You get to learn a lot
Lots of training provided
If you are in a good domain you get to learn a lot.

Cons

Bad appraisal process. You would be promised something and getting something else. Your manager would never know what you are going to get since ratings are discussed across verticals and they have a predefined set of promotions in an account. Hence you would not be promoted even though you are already doing the job of next level

Advice to Senior Management

If no good ratings could be provided for great employees at least give a pat.

Pros

- Among the IT services companies, their pay is better than average.
- Generally good work culture
- Good forward looking vision at the management level

Cons

- Promotions can be more aggressive for employees who show the hunger to succeed
- They stick to very traditional models of service delivery and costing

Advice to Senior Management

- Create a more robust infrastructure to encourage working remotely
- Have strict policies about work-life balance management
- Encourage sports & art more

Pros

Great IT MNC
Fastest growth with good customer base.
Salary package ok.
Work Life Balance ok.

Cons

Managment expects you to use your personal laptop for office work.
More stress on office dress than on work.