Cognizant reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(120,652 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 120,652 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
Feb 1, 2018
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Pros

Huge company , looks great on your resume , they give you a card with $20 every week for free food out of the vending machines

Cons

Management has no control over anything what-so-ever . They have hired everyone there around the same time because the project is brand new , so all the upper management have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when it comes to policy , theyre not required to view content yet they will look down upon anyone who doesnt meet their OUTRAGEOUS metrics . Because the client is a HUGE company , they kiss butt at every turn to make sure that they dont lose the contract , which i understand but when you come in one day and fire 60 people on a whim with no warning , you obviously dont care about your employees very much . You are expected to maintain a 98% accuracy although they are bringing in auditors with less experience than the people they are auditing and the material they have to reference is almost completely subjective . Not to mention there is no good way of repealing the decisions on audits without taking up 3 weeks of time . The way they have everything set up is a nightmare . All decisions are made by the sister site in phoenix and even if the decisions dont make sense we still have to follow everything they say because the client wants us to be aligned . Its very easy to get chewed up and spit out here . If you have no interest in technology or the internet its not for you , it requires popculture knowlege as well as knowlege on internet trends and memes , even current events . I would say this job is great for someone who doesnt mind kissing some butt and who possibly has a degree that can do some good for the project , maybe communications or even something to do with policy building , HR , SOMETHING . They need some serious help but what theyre doing is very important , and it could be a great job if the client would actually look around and see what is really going on .

2.0
Jul 29, 2015
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Pros

There are some very hard working people willing to go to whatever length is necessary to ensure team success

Cons

Upper leadership is deceiving (not all, there are some good people here including the chief executive however nothing is done to eliminate the poor management), especially to get you in the door, and once in be aware that higher promotions are much more politically based than other companies. Value of employees is judged by higher management using metrics that often times the employees have no ability to influence over and don't even consult the employee's supervisor (example, if you don't write the contract or have any say in it how can you be responsible for it not having good enough margins or utilization?)

1.0
Jun 9, 2015
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Pros

Pros are the people and companies you work with and working with the product.

Cons

management is largly Indian with their Indian culture - they care not about employees or clients. They are pushy and demanding and expect you to have no life outside of work. I worked there for 4 years as a full time perm developer in Core and was laid off with severance when new management. Then again as a contractor for SI for 6 months and no warning when terminated. Same story. Former founder left the company back when things were no longer in his control and since then this company has gone the way of greed.

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