Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,653 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 120,653 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognizant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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121K reviews
2.0
Oct 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO, Great Headquarters in Denver. Still has many Employees who care about the work they do and services they provide to the Clients.

Cons

Incompetent Management, Terrible HR department. No accountability leads to lots of roadblocks to get things done. Lack of Processes. High Voluntary Turnover. Political Bomb.....

1.0
Oct 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I honestly can't think of any pros to working here.

Cons

Poorly managed company that has no work life balance. You are expected to work evenings and weekends quite often. Employees are tired, stressed, and unfriendly. This creates a high turnover of employees which equates to a lot of newly untrained people and no time to train them: and the cycle keeps repeating. Seating looks like a sweat shop and there is no privacy for anyone. Every day is a fire at this company, so be prepared to drink from the fire hose. Very toxic environment.

1.0
May 29, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Intially the opportunity to serve in what is on the job description is there. The customers are okay to work with and truly have bought into the marketing hype.

Cons

Customers anxiously waiting and hoping for delivery since they are trapped in iron clad contracts that are changed with work orders daily. Code that never works as requested or required with elongated re-delivery dates. No response at escalation points leaving you hanging. Silo's for every division and department. There is a huge lack of leadership but somehow you are left to understand the invisible chain of command making it impossible to be productive. Extremely long hours with mandated weekend work due to poor strategic management and training be prepared to only be reactionary. A real thankless environment. The environment is toxic at this time a minimum of two people are leaving daily. This is not an A level Team. Anyone with options left is leaving. I will resign next week. This is not a healthy or productive environment.

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