Cognizant Technology Solutions Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – 1.Open door policy
2. Work environment
3. Great client exposure

Cons – 1. Location specific constraints
2. delayed projects
3. LOB shifts

Advice to Senior Management – I think apart from the great work environment that the company provides, it should allow shifting of LOB's to allow diversity in work.

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 3 years

Pros – lots of opportunities
dynamic and young leadership

Cons – No work-life balance
need to be a self-starter else will be lost in the dynamic environment

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 3 years

Pros – 1. Have had the opportunity to work with managers who have been extremely supportive of my career goals.

Cons – 1. Since associates are scattered across geographies, working for different clients, knowledge sharing is a real challenge.

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Encourage client rotation for associates atleast on a 2-3 year basis.

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 3 years

Pros – jpb safety, can move back to india with a project

Cons – Org Hierarchy issues, needs to resolve reporting issues in organization

Advice to Senior Management – Improve middle management skillset.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Everything is good in Cognizant If you plan to stay for decent time (3 years) and not more than that.
Employee care
Benefits
Career Growth
Compensation.........

Cons – I don't suggest to stay long time in Cognizant, you may lose in one or the other way if you do so.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't bother about the employee that serve long time for the company, as you do today

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

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time

Pros – good comapny for new joinees

Cons – Bench duration can be longer than expected

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

Pros – Great Career Opportunities. Customer Focused.

Cons – Work life balance. Less Salary,

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

Pros – Cognizant uses more experienced and efficient resources to deliver quality compared to other outsourcing companies. The top management (the CE grades) has their visions and drives better than others delivering growth and dynamism. The policies and processes are flexible when its a question of business win or profitability. The reinvestment is fueling more than other companies which is feedback looping the growth.

Cons – Like any other outsourcing company, Cognizant too does not hesitate to deprive resources whenever a chance found and by exploiting by every possible means. There is a nasty open scret as any other regionally dominated companies have, which nobody cares or dares to change is regional and racist lobbying.

Advice to Senior Management – The top management should be actively controlling and curbing the regional/racist lobbying. The resources should not be exploited to increase profits.

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 a year

Pros – Job security
Onsite opportunities
If you are out of one project due to low performance you will easily get new project - no firing
You are safe even if you are low skilled

Cons – Very less pay as compared to market standards
Green Card process now taking long time , forcing employees to leave USA, read PERM/I140 reviews on trakitt.com
Unprofessional middle management - you feel embarrassed when they speak with client ( Dont know how to talk properly)
No promotion or salary hike at onsite
Performance managemet a joke - Just filling it for the sake of audits (CMMI Level maintance)
Rude HR - Consider employees slaves as they know people on L1/H1 wont leave them
Work late hours to handle offshore resources - Get calls at nights which managers force employees to take - otherwise you face actions

Advice to Senior Management – 1. When you ask for promotions you get answer that there are people waiting in line in front of you - Is this a govt organisation where donky and a horse is considered same ?- come on give promotion based on pure performance
2. Respect resources who are working day and night at onsite to run project. They are the assets. Dont let them eaten by greedy clients and you keep showing revenues.

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

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Healthy work environment with peers

Cons – Some projects have incompetent management.. can cause issues with (1) personal growth (b) mapping one's relevant skill to projects

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend