Cognizant Software Engineer Reviews

Likes

Compensation and pay structure

Dislikes

Manager hierarchy. Ratings will be given by home manager. He will never know about my performance because he will be working for some other project. Still they give ratings based on some comments without knowing actual performance

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Learned lot of new things and i have worked with good team and great support from senior managers when you got strucked somewhere. Overall it's a good experience working with cognizant.

Dislikes

End of the day it's a service base company without proper work life balance and not much advisable to stay long in the service based companies like this.

Likes

Work culture is good and friendly environment.

Dislikes

Very risk and complicated to get project and no one help you to give you proper knowledge how to get project.

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.

Likes

Encourages in learning and development.

Dislikes

It depends on the manager you are working with. If your manager understands you then you are good or else you are in real bad shape.

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.

Likes

work life balance and fixed work timings

Dislikes

upper management rates poor for disliking someone, they do not allow to speak or raise any doubts in front of clients in the meetings, they expect you to say yes to managers when in client meetings and zero input or discussions.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Earlier Along with compines benifits , they thought about their employees as well. They used to gave good hike , timely promotion and even in covid time they alloted more leaves and provides extra salary for 2-3 months as well.

Dislikes

Since the changes in Top leadership , the promotion & Appraisal has been terrible. Once you will be released from current project, it is highly unlikely to get another.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Worklife balance depends on the project Promotions as a fresher A lot of scope for new skill development

Dislikes

Appraisals are late for laterals Strict bench policy, need to land in a project within 45 days.

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.

Likes

Very poor management , in cognizant someone got lot of work and he unable to handle that , and some one on bench got no work for 1-2 years this cause his/her whole career on danger .

Dislikes

Very poor management system

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.