Cognizant Technology Solutions Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Pros – Open, professional but warm culture

Cons – Growth can be stunted in this company based on location

Advice to Senior Management – Be employee-friendly

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Excellent company with strong Leadership.

Cons – Lack of advancement and reviews edited regardless of performance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – > Good Benefits
> Ability to work on multiple domains
> Open Culture

Cons – > Salary on a lower range
> Either in Bench or you need to work form more than 12 hrs per day

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – applies GC, onsite team is rotated at onsite , flexible work culture

Cons – salalry is compared to indian companies, but not good

Advice to Senior Management – better paypackage and benefits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than a year

Pros – Learn different aspects of the practice. Flexible Travel (depends on project). Good people overall.

Cons – Associate Directors are disconnected from their direct reports.
New hires are assigned to projects with no support/guidance from management.
Management tends to be reactive vs. proactive. Can be laid off or fired with very little notice.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline your processes. Set obtainable goals. Lead by example and exude positivity.
Stop placing employees on a action plan without first informing them of the problem and allowing them the opportunity to correct it.
Avoid building new custom tools when out-of-the box solutions are readily available.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for less than a year

Pros – - A wealthy and prosperous company
- high-end summer training program for recent grads

Cons – - Too big of a company, you are literally a cog in a machine
- Very little incentive to move up at all, strictly a resume builder

Advice to Senior Management – - Pay more attention to your college grads - they may have more to offer than just labor.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very good work environment back in 2004 but now it is getting more competitive and somewhat ugly. Learning curve is pretty good here. Academy rocks in terms of offering industry specific trainings and certifications.

Cons – Expectations to work long hours (although not necessary); Performance appraisal is not as robust as the HR claims...the bell-curve obviously matters. HR is not very helpful in addressing questions or issues. Not much in terms of mentoring.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Work life balance is provided.Many activities that relax us from work. Good support from senior managment

Cons – Too much recruitment that results in delay in promotions. Less incentives and hikes. No too many perks

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for less than a year

Pros – Cognizant has benefits and a lot of work. It is easy for new grad developers to get a lot of experience.

Cons – All new grads get the same salary regardless of the major. As a developer I feel underpaid and under appreciated. Maybe it could be this account.

Advice to Senior Management – Be appreciative of your team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 1. Lot of projects both at offshore and onsite, so you would hardly be out of project.
2. Insuance and other regular benefits.

Cons – 1. Not employee friendly anymore. It used to be very much employee friendly some 8 - 10 years back. Now it is more of revenue friendly.
2. Just 10 days of annual leaves at onsite !! And if you take those to pay a once a year visit to your home country , you can't take any more for rest of the year as you are out of leaves
3. Lets not talk about Salary. One of the lowest paying companies. Very low salary structure both in onsite and offshore. But higher management earns a lot. Just like how politicians knows how to fill their pockets. Well whats the point of showing XXX billion dollar companies by giving peanuts to employees who work day and night and hold the bone of the company ?
4. Horrible appraisal process. To become a manager, you need to first show XXX number of revenue addition.
5. Most of the managers have become managers due to lobby so ineficient non employee friendly guys are at the management position. rest you know the results.

Advice to Senior Management – Plz plz plz make policies to make this company employee friendly.
Please increase the vacation time from just 10 days to atleast 20 days a year, so that as majority of the employees at onsite are away from their families, they would get a chance to meet their families once a year and have few days off remaining to do work life balance in the remaining of the year.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company