Cognizant Tech Solutions Reviews

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

- 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

- 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.

Pros

Good people. Lots of self training opportunities. Lots of projects and clients. Very Very Very long term projects inside US.

Cons

Bit of politics in promotions. You need to show up what you did. Lots of non technical people in manager roles. Very low pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Please please please for god shake increase the salary for onsite employees. You guys charge clients so much but give employees just 50 - 60% not good.

Pros

flexibility, benefits, opportunity to try out different career paths

Cons

salary, growth potential getting saturated

Pros

Great Learning and Great Skill

Cons

Biased behavior wrt to caste and state

Advice to Senior Management

Take the caste ism out and respect Performance

Pros

Good benefits and Job security.

Cons

Bare minimum pay. Poor work-life balance

Advice to Senior Management

Improve performance management process

Pros

Decent salary compared to other companies in the same category. Open communication with supervisors

Cons

No transparency in appraisals and promotions. No career path guidance. Compensation still below standard for the industry.

Advice to Senior Management

Be transparent in the performance reviews and promotions process. Treat employees as assets and not just as resources to get mileage out of. Managers should have a vision for each associate and should also act as a mentor.