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Cognizant Programmer Analyst Reviews

Updated 13 Jun, 2025

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3.5

Company Culture

3.5

Work-Life Balance

3.5

Skill Development

3.3

Job Security

3.2

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3.0

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Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

posted on 26 Apr 2025

Likes

I have been learning new technologies since day one, so learning is never stopped for me after joining cognizant

Dislikes

Cognizant will not pay you well , Even if you are eligible for a better pay at the correct time they will release you from the project so that they don't have to promote you

Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

3.0

posted on 08 Jun 2025

Likes

Well my project client and management were chill and flexible about the work. Just I need to complete the work on time. If not possible, they are ready to listen to you, we just need to be able to communicate out challenges and problems well. My work from office doesn't have strict hours or days required, I can choose any 3 days outof a week to appear in office. If you want to chill and relax, people are doing here the same and you can climb the corporate ladder with your years of experience and little efforts to complete the deliverables and secure 3 ratings. That's it! Your retirement is well planned and enjoy your life. But provided you will not grow to your market value, but I mean to say you have a comfort zone here. We have cateria, gym, food purchase with money, indoor games, good IT parks and office space, resting dorms, outdoor game fields for cricket, basketball and badminton etc. We have things to spend time here. We have free access to Udemy business and cognizant learn (cognizant learn is shit by the way), opportunities for MTech (cognizant offer 50k fee for 1 semester), external cloud, Oracle, Salesforce, service now, etc certification voucher and sponsorship... So learning is unlimited if you want to and have time to come out of comfort zone and work. We need to choose the priority you want to do with your life. That's what I do till now and know these in cognizant and I like them....Read More

Dislikes

They provide too much yearly learning materials which is impossible to complete them with tests within a year. Generally ask us to complete mandatory learnings in last minute. If you receive a 5,4,3 ratings it doesn't matter, they will promote you based on the quota and budget. They can change the policy of promotion criteria at anytime. If you stay in the same company for years and show loyalty, you will be provided you the fruit of your loyalty by bringing a junior with high pay than you 🤣. They will show you dreams of onsite opportunity saying you to give your years of loyalty, god knows when you will get that. Maybe when your manager resigns by that time. The projects are not stable, cognizant are loosing their clients. You might go to bench anytime when you're not required or project is ramp down. Chances when you go bench, next the company will throw you out after aging. I saw some projects work culture is really good. But some projects have micro managements and strict work hours (support roles). And some politics are also there. There are favouritism also there. Even if the project client are very chill and lenient the managers will keep pushing you and bother you. So it depends project to project....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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Programmer Analyst in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

posted on 24 May 2025

Likes

You won't be having much work.

Dislikes

If you joined as fresher they will train you in technical stack and they will put you in support or non technical job . Notice period is 90 days . You won't learn any new skills here.Company will delay your promotion and hike saying criterias are changed like that .

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

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Programmer Analyst in Chennai

Full Time

Software Development Department

3.0

posted on 30 Apr 2025

Likes

1. High pay while joining. 2. work life balance 3. No micro monitoring

Dislikes

1. No promotion and salary hike, so try to get high salary while joining. 2. Managers won't recognise your work while providing rating and appraisal meetings.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in New Delhi

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

posted on 08 Apr 2025

Likes

Work life balance is good cause no one will contact you on weekends or after hours unless absolutely necessary.

Dislikes

Promotion is slow and policies for promotion changes on its own.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Programmer Analyst in Pune

Full Time

Data Science & Machine Learning Department

3.0

posted on 28 Mar 2025

Likes

Free learning Platform,

Dislikes

There is no Job security and difficult to find project inside organization and at the time of promotion lot of reason give to not get pramotion

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in Indore

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

3.0

posted on 19 Mar 2025

Likes

Dislikes

Bad appraisals, strict wfo policy because of which you will get stuck during big emergencies, strict promotional criterias, low salary for entry level, not sure about higher level people

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within Country.

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Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

Software Development Department

2.0

posted on 17 Mar 2025

Likes

Despite the fact that cognizant is not directly involved, the management team is the worst because I had a bad rating once and spoke with my HR about it. She said that it was illogical to claim to be able to speak Hindi, and they do not care about employees. While some employees are excellent, favoritism is a non-issue in the Kolkata office. I will not receive any better senior support that would help me start from scratch....Read More

Dislikes

I can list innumerable dislikes. 1. HR role is not in line with his or her work, and seeing such service from such an MNC, particularly in Kolkata office, truly hurt me. 2. I believe that the best way to force the company to leave on its own volition is through favoritism, which is the most advantageous attack by the poor managementof the Kolkata office. 3. You must look for projects on your own, work hard to earn your rating, and fail every time if you are not a Bengali. 4. No work-life balance; you have to work on weekends and late nights, and as a result, you will be highly appreciated with a very bad rating and feedback. 5. salary is very low and there is no hike or promotion if you are not favourite candidate of your manager...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

1.0

posted on 16 Mar 2025

Likes

Work culture

Dislikes

Promotion criteria is not at all good. There is lot of discrimination over degree and b.tech education and the promotion eligibility criteria is worst.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

1.0

posted on 12 Mar 2025

Dislikes

I am not recommend for freshers to join in this organisation if u don't have any other option u choose this by u r own risk and u don't know what stack u get even though u get a good stack u r not sure u will work in the trained stack and after 18 months completion mostly they released the fresher from the project moved to bench once u complete 2 years if u don't have project they are asking for forced resignation...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in Coimbatore

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

3.0

posted on 13 Feb 2025

Likes

Office culture and location

Dislikes

Couldn't manage work-life balance, more than 12 hours working, feeling so stressed and I have joined in nov 28, 2020 still I am in PA position with 5LPA package. There is no time to develop my skills, only I can focus on target.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst in Pune

Full Time

Data Science & Machine Learning Department

3.0

posted on 10 Feb 2025

Likes

Learning opportunity

Dislikes

Delayed promotions, low rating due to company policies or some random reason, less increments, even if you work hard. No perks or benefits during festivals like Diwali

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in Noida

Full Time

IT Security Department

3.0

posted on 06 Feb 2025

Likes

For me provide learning and development opportunities such as certification vouchers from various companies.

Dislikes

For me not giving salary hike as per my payable work for last 3 years but it depends on projects to projects and manager's not a company issue.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

IT Infrastructure Services Department

4.0

posted on 04 Feb 2025

Likes

Good

Dislikes

I have joined as fresher and i would say it's a good company to start. They give you a good platform to learn things and utilities things better in terms of corporate life.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Data Science & Machine Learning Department

1.0

posted on 04 Feb 2025

Likes

Worst of Worstest. no sleep no hike no work life balance toxic co workers no cab facility no proper response we dont know who is our HR till we resigned. never Join Cts.

Dislikes

everything. expect for some sweet peope I meet there. worst

Work Details

Work timings: Strict Timings

Programmer Analyst in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

IT Consulting Department

2.0

posted on 02 Feb 2025

Likes

Did not have much pressure to work from office. The office facility was good.

Dislikes

The project allotted was not that great, did not have any promotion in the entire tenure. Work life balance was poor.

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

2.0

posted on 30 Jan 2025

Likes

Opportunities to learn, security of job

Dislikes

Management will not care about your problems. Salary is low compared to competitors. They'll change your project at September and for year end rating they'll simply say we haven't got chance to fully understand your capabilities as you've recently joined in the project. Every year this loop continues. No matter how hard you work or how many appreciations you get from client. "The more number of days you're in the same LOB, the more rating you'll get." (This is the excuse I've got when I questioned about the rating, despite having multiple client appreciations). This demotivates for sure!...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

IT Support Department

1.0

posted on 29 Jan 2025

Likes

Nothing to like about this company

Dislikes

0 work life balance Even if you live thousands of kms away they will drag you to come to office And forget about good salary or promotion Join this company only if you want to destroy your life and your mental health

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

Quality Assurance and Testing Department

1.0

posted on 11 Jun 2025

Likes

Good work environment

Dislikes

Very less communication with hr. Resulting in confusions with criterias for promotion, hikes, role changes, etc.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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The experience of working at any company can vary based on factors like team, manager, role, company policy etc. However, with an overall rating of 3.5 out of 5 from over 5.8k employee reviews, it's clear that most programmer analysts have an average experience working at Cognizant. Company culture holds the highest rating at 3.5, while career growth is rated the lowest amongst all factors at 2.7. Read reviews about company culture and career growth on AmbitionBox.

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According to AmbitionBox reviews, Cognizant programmer analysts rate their salary and benefits at 3.0 out of 5, based on 5.8k reviews. The rating reflects an average level of satisfaction among employees regarding compensation and benefits, indicating that while employees find the compensation and benefits acceptable, there is room for improvement in these areas. You can know more about Cognizant's programmer analysts salaries here and to read reviews specifically about salary and benefits at Cognizant for programmer analysts, click here .

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Work culture at Cognizant for programmer analysts is rated 3.5 out of 5 by 5.8k employees on AmbitionBox, indicating an average environment. Work culture encompasses aspects like collaboration, support, and overall employee satisfaction. The rating reflects that while some aspects of the work culture are satisfactory, there is room for improvement in certain areas.To read reviews specifically about work culture at Cognizant for programmer analysts, click here .

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Based on 5.8k reviews on AmbitionBox, Cognizant's programmer analysts rate job security at 3.3 out of 5. This lower rating indicates that a significant number of employees may have concerns about their job stability and the reliability of their roles at Cognizant. To read reviews about job security at Cognizant for programmer analysts, click here .

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