Impressive technical achievements, but client requirements lack clarity - Data Engineer Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Spearheaded the redesign of Azure-based ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) to process 10M+ records daily, improving data throughput and scalability by 40%. • Designed and implemented a star schema enterprise data warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics, reducing report generation time by 50% and enabling faster analytics consumption. • Built real-time data streaming pipelines integrating Apache Kafka with Azure Databricks lowering processing latency by 35% and supporting distributed workloads over 20TB of data. • Developed and integrated REST APIs to ingest external financial data into Azure Data Lake, improving cross-system data availability and reducing insurance policy issuance time by 30%. • Partnered with analytics teams to build SQL-based transformation and data modeling layers in Azure Synapse, developing DAX measures and data modeling practices to deliver analytics

Cons

Client requirements were always vague

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5.0
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Pros

Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

The way the bench status is structured

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3.0
Jun 17, 2026
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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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