Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(121,047 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 121,047 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
Mar 5, 2018

Former VP before Cognizant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Location, Interesting Approach to solving the problems in HealthCare, Technology is considered best of breed.

Cons

Very Sexist- Does not promote female employees Long work hours, 24/7 work expectation No career track

3.0
Feb 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big consulting company, people are good,

Cons

You will be asked to do whatever role is available, not based on your expertise but based on networks you have. There is no well-defined process starting for getting hired to termination. Company HR and TSC are of no use when you are rolled off from one project and looking for another.

3.0
Feb 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, great company culture.

Cons

Quite possibly the worst training I have ever head the displeasure of experiencing. They promise you the world and patronize you, only to underdeliver with poor training practices, and sufficient training to begin with. The trainers (minus one wonderful gentleman who, our class unfortunately did not get as a trainer, but did get to receive a lesson or two from), clearly do not know enough of the job to be teaching it. Interestingly enough, two of them are washouts from the training department of another company I used to work at several years ago, and it looks like they haven't improved much either. Management, at least as far as the training department is concerned, is bizarrely incompetent. An absolute joke. Even mentors and leads already on the floor admitted that currently implemented training standards were unfair, and unrealistic expectations, which is true, as after doing some shadowing, the general work on a day to day basis is easy as pie. I wont even get into inconsistencies, flip-flopping of company policy, contradicting information received from trainer to trainer, and the general dependency of your job on the opinion of people who have never even underwent the the strenuous training and requirements they now require from new hires.

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