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Cognizant

3.4
  • > 100,000 employees

Cognizant Reviews

Based on 19 surveyed graduates working at Cognizant. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
3.4
Based on 19 reviews

Pros & Cons

  • The business trips, and the people. They also have a genuine interest to take care of their employees and ensure that their professional career development is being achieved.
  • You get a lot of support and guidance when required, they pay a lot of attention to the growth of their graduates.
  • Flexibility, autonomy and independence. The company's employee focused nature is very supportive and attentive to employee needs.
  • I get to work onsite with amazing clients doing interesting work.
  • The initial opportunities for training are great.
  • Requests for certain action items that need to be fulfilled sometimes take too long to be completed due to lengthy approval times.
  • The graduate program needs to be more structured so that our engagement and interest is maintained.
  • Frictional interactions between employees, especially with offshore teams, due to cultural differences.
  • Unsure of my direction or intent from management.
  • Clunky laptop, slow internal processes.

What Insiders Say

5.8
Career Prospects
5.8
Career Prospects
You should learn to pursue such things yourself, it's likely you can get pigeonholed into a role if you're not careful.
7.5
Corporate Social Responsibility
7.5
Corporate Social Responsibility
There have been a few social outreach events such as fun runs and bicycle rides. More can always be done.
7.4
Culture
7.4
Culture
Very supportive staff with great social activities outside of working hours.
8.0
Diversity
8.0
Diversity
No traces of discrimination in the office.
6.7
Satisfaction
6.7
Satisfaction
Role has not stabilized but recent day-to-day involves assisting upgrade of client's communication application.
7.3
Management
7.3
Management
The one possible mentor left soon after I joined, and my last manager wasn't very accessible or too interested in my growth.
7.9
Office Work Environment
7.9
Office Work Environment
Cognizant has just moved into a brand new premise in Melbourne. The space is amazing. Dress code is standard business dress Monday-Thursday and smart casual on Friday.
8.2
Recruitment
8.2
Recruitment
The interview process is normal, Selection based on CV - Phone Interview - Face-to-Face Interview Assessment includes presentation, some coding test and knowledge test for IT. 1. Case study, how would you use social networking to help a restaurant run a better business? 2. Why should I choose you for this job? 3. What is IOT and give some examples? Talk to the graduates who have already worked here and of course, they can read this survey for some insights.
5.6
Salary
5.6
Salary
Nothing remarkable.
6.7
Training
6.7
Training
They have a large e-learning variety, opportunities to become certified in software services you learn to use and provide basic professional communication and presentation training.
7.8
Work Hours
7.8
Work Hours
It's ok, during crunch times there can be some overtime or weekend work, but if you have needs etc you can negotiate.
6.7
Sustainability
6.7
Sustainability
As a IT company, we don't produce that much carbon. But, we try our best to reduce the waste as much as possible.

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