Cognizant Chennai, Testing Verticle - Business Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
12 Oct 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay package, good brand name in the market, fast growing company.

Cons

1.No career path defined for associates 2. No work life balance. you are supposed to spend @least 12 hours in office else you are not a competent employee. Noone cares how much and what quality of work you are doing. 3. Managers keep a keen eye on your swipe-in and swipe-out time and number of hours you spend. 4. This is specific to testing verticle that some middle management people are running the teams as personal fiefdom and in cartels 5. your skill sets are not considered while giving work to you. There lots of non technical / functional business analysyts/domain experts/SMEs working as testers and executing test cases as their primary job/roles 6. Too much of cartelisation.

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Cons

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Pros

Cognizant can be a great place to work at. You have to be self-motivated and driven. You won't often be given a script on how to do your job well. But if you are willing to search for new opportunities, you will find success.

Cons

Just like many other tech companies, layoffs are happening all the time. This often brings many projects to a complete halt. Management never communicates when someone is laid off. And when they are laid off, they often never back fill positions, leaving existing team members working the equivalent of three jobs at once. Most teams there are skeleton crews, ensuring that they cannot reach their full potential.

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