Good for Career Growth - Associate Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
Jul 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good work environment 2. TFT monitors with Windows 7 OS 3. Onsite opportunity - short term, mid term & long term 4. Plenty of classroom trainings - both technical & softskills 5. Career growth options - can handle a junior team with 2/3 yrs of experience 6. Good people to work with 7. Employees are good in technical and very much competent 8. Free Tea/Coffee, store accessories (book,pen,pencil,adhesive,magnet,marker,duster, bottles etc) 9. Young employees 10. Annual Functions 11. Canteen is OK and sometimes good food 12. Car drop facility available 13. Once you go to onsite, you can mange to stay for very long term 14. Those who can keep a good rapport with management, can make their career growth very smooth 15. Can have various internal and external certifications

Cons

1. Package was very less, but recently they gave a very good hike 2. Very reluctant is initiating H1B 3. You have to manage to get an onsite otherwise you will sit in offshore for a longer time 4. Most of the good projects are bounded within Chennai, other locations don't get much good project 5. Very difficult to switch your technology or vertical 6. Politics in senior management is too much 7. Sometimes the internal decisions are not transparent to the ground level employees 8. Leave encashment has been stopped 9. Some incompetent people are in on-site and yet they are not being replaced by good capable guys

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