Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,977 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 120,977 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
1.0
Jan 19, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

PTO is decent. Not much else.

Cons

Pay is terrible. Most recent raise was $0.16. They got rid of incentive bonuses and shortened parental leave once they acquired QDS from Nuance. Promised things would be business as usual then terminated 3/4 of the staff by trying to make things fully AI. Meanwhile clients suffer and are unhappy. Poor leadership. Terrible benefits. Work is unfairly audited by falsifying errors or purposely waiting until the last day of the month to submit a poor audit so you don’t have a chance to redeem yourself. Employees were consistently receiving scores of 98-100% for YEARS but now that jobs are on the line suddenly QDS are getting QA scores of 95%.

1.0
Oct 25, 2023

Worst company ever

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They are flexible for time off

Cons

After the merge with microsoft they have under cut the small employees and put pressure on the managers to micro manage the employees. We the small employees have had our time off cut, they took away volunteer time, we have not had a raise, they have taken away our incentive plan, they have taken away our ability to work outside of our home when we need to, they took teams messenger ability's away from our phone. If we are 1 minute late for work they can dock us. We are scheduled for 40 hours but have been told to make sure our time sheets are below 40 hours. There have been no advancement opportunities. I inquired about the program they have for reimbursement for certificates outside of work hours and i was told we arent eligible..

2.0
Sep 3, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is currently hiring, partly because they have driven away over 2/3 of the SFMC team over the last year or so.

Cons

Do you enjoy corporate drudgery and process upon process upon process? This place may be for you! Honestly, there is little to any fun in the day to day and there is soo much pressure to be "big consulting" that the work is almost forgotten. Team members who want to grow and try new things are often overlooked for new employees coming into the business from other places.

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