Average Pay, Good Health Coverage - Full Stack Software Engineer Cognizant Employee Review

4.0
Mar 29, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Comprehensive health coverage, including immediate family members. - Opportunity to meet and learn from a diverse group of professionals.

Cons

- Salary increments are minimal. - No bonus structure. - Promotions seem largely based on luck, even after strong performance and hard work. - Work-life balance depends on the team and management, making it inconsistent.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Good amount of training opportunity and opportunities to make connections as they have hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world working on many different projects.

Cons

It feels like you're a number. My raises lagged inflation by quite a lot. Also I had a closer relationship to the company I was on contract with than Cognizant. Cognizant would just check in on me every now and again, which that might be a pro for some, it's a con for me because they wanted you to do a bunch of added work and projects for them and incentivize you to do it with higher bonuses. Again, this sounds like a pro to some, for me it was a con because I already had a commitment to the company I was on contract with and plenty of work to do for them.

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