Good company but not without flaws - Associate Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
8 Oct 2008
Recommend
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Pros

I like its agresssive attitute when it come to grabing the projects. its has good markering team, They get the best projects. Also Cognizant has a special ablility to compete and win. from my past 2 years experince i have come accross many incidents where we have crushed many other Vendors. That is something CTS is good at.

Cons

Atitute towards employees is something I did not like. They only know to hire talented technical resources , once we are hired we will not be given opportunity to revisit our current knowledge and help us to imporove on it or aquire more knowledge. I have no idea how it works in offshore but as far as i know in onsite we work on same thing for years together. No training and absolutely no opprtunity to try some new job with in the organisation. Its boring. Works well in a bad economy but once the job market gets better it will be diffult for them to retain employees.

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5.0
21 Jan 2026
Anonymous intern
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Pros

good company to work for as an intern, I learned a lot and was able to really collaborate and work with everyone

Cons

It is remote so it is harder to reach out to toher

1.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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