Cognizant Senior Business Analyst salaries in Bangalore / Bengaluru (Updated 2025)

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Overall its a decent company, with a good brand name.

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Compensation. You have a very very slow career progress. Promotions have become worst after introducing IJM. People here will get promoted soon, but the compensation after promotion is mere 15% irrespective of skillset you possess. There is no market correction here which makes the employees feel a lot undervalued.

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There is a respect for meritocracy and comparatively little politics regarding bonus promotions etc once you are in mid to senior level of competency.Colleagues are generally smart and professional.The delivery team is excellent in most projects and most senior folks are easily approachable.

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You have very little mentorship and have to find your own.way.around.Sometimes recognitions can be very late.

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Work life balance Learning and development Salary and benefits (only incentives no bonus) Flexible work hour Hybrid

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They are not giving promotion on time. No appraisal period sometimes they are giving hike on Apr and sometimes on Aug No job security No values to employees after resignation

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It depends on the team so you can not say just based on your experience whether work culture is good or bad. Overall it's not that bad to not consider altogether.

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The freshers joining after college are getting better pay than me, poor increment and long promotion time. No extra benefits.

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...really want to learn and grow and excel do-not join this organisation i request. Your salary , perks, appraisals , everything is below average only. Plus they will demotivate you at every possible events and some day or other you will start thinking whether you actually are good or not. They will fight with you over basic things even though they know it is right. They will never keep their chat history active otherwise their all these activities will get tracked. Their Analytics is far most the worst i have ever seen and heard. So choice is all yours. Best of luck

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Terrible management, They always do micro-management, they will suppose to help you in your growth but instead will ruin your day doing multiple calls, work flow is terrible. Suddenly they take decisions and juggle you between projects. Cognizant will force you to touch the clients feet when it comes to work. My senior directly said if client say A for Ballon say that dont question. If you question they will highlight your name and ask managers to micro manage you in everything. They dont know work ethics as well. One of the biggest problem is the moment you will have your appraisal or increment they will surely ruin your ratings. This happened with my whole team for example client has shared appreciation letter to 2 of us and next day manager said our performance is below average. Even though you perform well you can never get 4 or 5 star rating as per my manager. If you get 2 escalations your whole year’s good work and rating goes to 2 star. So please make sure if you are planning to move here think twice