Cognizant Salaries in India (Updated 2025)

Likes

Work life balance is nice here. In Cognizant every religions are celebrating with no discrimination.

Dislikes

In Cognizant promotions are very late. Upto the Salary they offer, is very low and appraisal are also not good. They mostly delay the appraisals.

Likes

Leaves (lots of leaves) Some good managers Good learning. You have udemy, multiple cloud partners. You can study for free. Colleagues are friendly. No strict office timing ( you can just stay for an hour and do wfh) Food is ok. If you are an extrovert, there are lot kf outreach programs. Transparency till higher management.

Dislikes

Recently, After CEO change there are No promotion, No hikes and no good projects. They are loosing clients left and right, leading to less salary, heavy firing, cost cuts, less variable bay (even for 5 Rating, you'll get 2K hike) Mostly due to losing projects, there is mainly prod support or infra setup for US based companies. Some managers are heavily toxic, that they take personal vengeance with you.

Likes

We can grow up with new technologies. And also we can learn more in new technologies. That's really appreciate.

Dislikes

No hike and promotion if we are doing well also no appreciation. My background is Java but they gave all the works in different platforms like .net, python. Hike also getting very delayed.

Likes

Salary is good when you switch job to cognizant.

Dislikes

No work life balance. I got project in another technology to the one I was hired for. There is lot of work pressure. It feels like a hanging sword. Any moment you can be fired .

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.