Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,995 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 120,995 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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1.0
Apr 16, 2018
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Pros

The only Pros was to earn airline/hotel points due to heavy travel.

Cons

The company does not have any culture whatsoever. No work life balance. The Mgmt does not care about its employees. They do not answer emails promptly nor communicate updates regularly. Most Projects were a total disaster due to lack of technical leadership.

1.0
Jan 24, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The work day is not very strenuous. Your job consists of viewing social media posts (photos, videos, and text comments/posts) that are reported for potential abuse and determining whether or not they violate the policies for acceptable content. Positions exist in Phoenix, AZ and Tampa, FL.

Cons

This is a brand new project Cognizant has with a universally-known client. Since there is no objective way of measuring your performance, a "quality analyst" in the company simply looks at a small portion of your work and makes the same judgment that you did. If they disagree (theoretically, because you acted incorrectly based on the policy), you get it "wrong." The problem arises because a small percentage of your work will involve judgment in answering questions that are ambiguous by policy, because no fixed policy can address all of infinite ways words (let alone typographical errors, sounds, emojis, etc.) can be arranged by a user. Depending on which individual analyst checks your work, your work may be considered right or "wrong." So, you'll have a 50% (for example) chance of getting that "wrong" regardless of which decision you make. Since your measured "performance" an illusion of objectivity behind it, you will eventually be terminated because your numbers fall short of a specific threshold. Even if you execute every decision as flawlessly as possible, it's only possible to meet this threshold as long as you stay lucky enough to not be assigned "judgment cases."

2.0
Aug 3, 2017

Could be better

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Pros

there is no pro for this company the moment they merged with cognizant everythign went down hill

Cons

well, people if you want head aches and your job on the edge don't do it. Look else where because it is nothing as promised

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