Cognizant Technology Solutions Reviews

Pros

Good Company to work and good learning

Pros

Great Work Culture at Cognizant

Pros

Good benefits, Multiple domains, Competitive environment

Advice to Management

Give more open opportunities to employees.

Pros

Very entrepreneurial and flat structure - used to a client first, high growth engine

Pros

You will get a good exposure to multiple technologies and platforms. There will be a good on-the-job learning.

Pros

I felt needed, respected, and well compensated in my best project.

Advice to Management

Survey the satisfaction of your employees based on project, then use successful projects as template to improve unsuccessful ones.

Pros

Work Culture, People working in Cognizant and Atmosphere and Helping Nature of People in Cognizant.

Pros

Fortune 200 company with a presence in many major and smaller corporations. Ability to transfer across industry vertical practices could theoretically allow an associate to get broad career experience

Culture of empowerment - when assigned to an account or a project, you have a lot of latitude to run it as you see fit. The possible problem is that almost nothing is done in a standard way, nor are there resources from which you can glean inspiration for executional options

Advice to Management

1) Create an easy to use database that allows employees to find a) key sales and/or delivery leads from other accounts; b) key practice leads for horizontal technologies; c) sample well-written Statements of Work

2) standardize promotion criteria across verticals and horizontals so that when you staff a "Senior Manager", as an example, the soft and tech skills don't vary so widely, making it easier to consistently deliver quality results

3) build in some buffer in the rate structures to allow for a) some management non-billable overhead (not everyone can be billable, especially given the ever increasing internal operational demands), b) limited fly in/fly out for project team members; and c) team events to help associates maintain some aspects of work/life balance and team morale

4) many key internal systems - ESA, Cforecast, Winzone - were horrendously designed. Reference data in the three systems not in synch creating the necessity of wacky offline mapping spreadsheets. User interfaces miserable - clearly designed by and implemented by resources who have never had to enter in an actual opportunity, forecast or monitor actuals

Formalize a process to allow senior delivery and client service leads the ability to rotate to other accounts or verticals. You are stifling and/or losing good, experienced talent by trapping people on a single account for 10+ years and not letting them seek other opportunities from within the firm

Pros

Excellent opportunities to learn and grow.Lots of training available on demand.
Efficient immigration team
Focus on team spirit.

Advice to Management

Flatten hierarchy.

Pros

No work pressure and the benefits are good.