Great work life balance, good facilities, open to change - Senior Associate Cognizant Employee Review

4.0
29 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

at Cognizant there is great Freedom at work, no compulsion to office hours. Employees are encouraged to go through various learning programs to enrich their career.

Cons

The Admin team is disconnected from employees, most of the time the issues faced by employees on daily basis reached admin very slowly and their response is also not at par . lack of technical opportunities is another disadvantage,

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Cons

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1.0
5 June 2026
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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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