Cognizant Technology Solutions Reviews

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

Current Employee – been working at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time

Pros – Opportunity to self learn and apply your knowledge in client projects.
Some level of freedom to make decisions without too much upper management interference.

Cons – Stopped valuing experience / knowledge of their employees.
Do not pay well. Charge customers high bill rates but don't pass that down to their emps.
Completely clueless middle and upper management.
Horrible appraisal process. Growth is stagnant unless you know some one or are a pure people manager with zero delivery responsibilities.
Do not value technical skills.
Once you reach a certain level, you are expected to stop doing technical work. This is a recipe for disaster.
High attrition rate (of good resources) due to above factors.

Advice to Senior Management – Start valuing your employee's more and reduce the inefficient management tier in the organization.
Pass more of what you make from the client for a position to the employee serving that position; adjust salary levels based on the role a employee plays at a client location instead of looking at ones title.

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 a year

Pros – Medical insurance is good, if you are using that properly

Cons – Worst manager .. they will screw your carrier in big time
Don't accept any bonus as your salary component , you will not get
This year more than 1500 employees got fired from bangalore and chennai location

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

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

Pros – -This was my first company thats why its good

Cons – -low salary
-no career growth

Advice to Senior Management – Avoid politics

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

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions for more than 3 years

Pros – No reason why someone should work here, better avoid it...

Cons – Employees treated like slaves, no value given for their interests, no technical growth , made to do redundant work having no value

Advice to Senior Management – Treat employees with professional and respect, since we work for money does not mean that we are slaves

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

Pros – Good onsite opportunity but only for those who knows how to make their manager happy not according to employee knowledge or performance

Cons – Manager don't know how to handle a resource...
Started firing employees this year onward s..
Bonus is added as a salary component and there is no assurance you will get it or not.

Advice to Senior Management – Please take make your reviews based on resource handwork and knowledge. and at least try to manage resources base on their knowledge in the technology and not because you want the to work on it

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 – Flexible Timings that is also, if your project manager is not of an old mentality like If you will work more than 12 hours than u r good resource. Also, it depends on your manager and vertical or horizontal.
Good for local people, not for other states people.
Onsite opportunity if you have strong political mind to fight with your manager.

Cons – Every time you have to fight for your projects(Cheese) to get Billability, either they will force you to deploying at locations where you are not interested and if you are not agree then they will force you to give resignation.
Also, if you are not worthy after a period of time then they will directly force you to give resign.
Project tagging and billability is a big issue over here.
You will get cab only when you are working after 8:00 pm that is also, if its required.
Management level is not as much strong as other companies, they are just for display or showcase purpose.
They will represent that their company is best in everything, but when you will join things will be different. They are good representer but not good implementor.
They have created big processes, but management people never follows them.
Their in hand salary is very lower than other companies, variable pay is also based on bucket system that is also not based on performance, it depends on your terms with manager and also from which region you are.
They said they believe in Diversity, but their managers do not believe in it, their manager believe on regional tag(T-factor).
They do not have any watching system on managers, they are free to do anything.
Over all your manager should be good, either you will be in trouble :(

Advice to Senior Management – Set a panel or tell your senior management to have regular watch on Manager and Sr Managers decisions, they are degrading morals and values of Cognizant.
Hire managers who have positive attitude, diverse nature and believe in performance basis system rather than having political nature, gender biased, regions(south and north), cast and color reliability.
North people are also coming from a very big distance states by cracking all your difficult interviews and tests and trying to live with you and accepting your culture and giving you good ideas and revenue. They are far from your families, but what your managers are doing with them region based biasing, because they don't know your language, but they know the language of positivity, that your managers are not able to see it.
When your work is done, you will throw them like they from SC/ST.
A big company like Cognizant will do these type of things. I can not understand.

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 a year

Pros – Work is good but its too much, need to work on weekends

Cons – Hard to get onsite if you are in some horizontal

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Understood the politics, learned to managed stress

Cons – Bullies run the show
They dont like geeks, but the knowledge economy needs geeks

Advice to Senior Management – Take suggestions and feedback from the employees on every aspect

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

Former Employee – worked at Cognizant Technology Solutions full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Sound processes, brand recognition, may be good opportunities if you have the right skills.

Cons – For an organization that preaches the highest standards of business ethics, it surprisingly does not live by the same rule when it comes to treatment of its employees. So what if employees are required to complete mandatory compliance training every year to ensure they act with integrity when dealing with clients? Alas, the same integrity is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to the Cognizant's dealing with its employees. Ok, let me elaborate...I quit Cognizant few months back because I got a better job offer. As per company policy, I gave my employers 60 days notice. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when my organization decided to release me within 40 days. The team that I was working for was yet to identify and train a replacement for me, so their desire to relieve me early piqued my curiosity. I was naive enough to initially assume that it was some kind of goodwill gesture by my employer to allow me to go out so early. While pondering over various possible motives behind my early release, I discovered that I was entitled to performance bonus if I was on company's payroll till 31st December. It did not take a stroke of genius to realize that Cognizant did not want to pay me my performance bonus after I left, so they conveniently pre-poned my relieving date by 20 days! And all this while, my HR manager was telling me that I was a valued employee and they would do anything to retain me!! So, what did I do? I threw the policy rule book at them and they had no option but to agree to my demand. I even got an email confirmation from HR that stated that I would be paid my performance bonus as part of final financial settlement. The final financial settlement was indeed paid timely, but it did not contain my performance bonus. This was around couple of months back. I have now lost count of the number of emails that I have written to HR seeking an explanation, but have received no response. I am still undecided on whether I should pursue legal options, given that judiciary is notoriously slow here in India. Anyway, the moral of the story is: Time you resignation right to avoid being conned like I was. And never ever trust the management at Cognizant.

Advice to Senior Management – Actions speak louder than words, stop being a hypocrite, learn to value your employees