Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(121,029 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 121,029 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
Mar 23, 2025

DO NOT WORK HERE

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Pros

They pay a little more than other jobs in the area when I started

Cons

- Pay does not keep pace - Most of the off-shore team is incompetent - Unattainable Deadlines and no assistance with completing them - Does not properly staff sites - Actively destroys the clients IT environment I would not recommend anyone hire this company or work for them. They are actively terrible at what they do and how they operate. The company claims to be a US company when it is an Indian MSP.

2.0
Dec 23, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Consistent work in the Healthcare vertical.

Cons

Cognizant is consistently pushing to move as much work as possible to India and leave as few employees in the US as possible. It became increasingly difficult- almost impossible- to move upwards if you are a US employee without the desired "background." Opportunities are routinely made available to Indian associates only, even when promised to US employees as well ("it's not in our US team budget after all.") Levels of bureaucracy have been introduced making it increasingly difficult- almost impossible- for employees/processors to simply complete basic everyday tasks. (When someone creates a bot to help employees log into everything they need to log into or when you literally have to open a ticket to get approval to open a ticket, a line has been crossed. Also, favoritism trickles down from the top, with each successive layer down playing favorites.

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