This is a service based company. Whether you feel good or bad about work here is a reflection of how your client treats. - Manager/Tech Lead Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

# Good work culture. # Flexible timings. # Supportive team (peers, sub-ordinates and supervisors). # Onsite opportunities available.

Cons

CTS is basically a service based company. Whether you feel good or bad about work here is a reflection of how your client treats. Your comfort at work depends upon the client you work with. Below are some of my experiences with a banking client. # Scope and solution model keeps changing day by day. The project deadlines remain the same. # There are lot of non technical requirements, to be met. # You won't get a competent team to meet the project many times. Only some of the members are good. # There is no work life balance. # Some of the architectures are flawed. You cannot change them. But all the risk of delivery will be on top of you. # Job of a lead is very tough. Stress is beyond one's bearing capacity. # Freshers can thrive in this kind of projects. They can grow up to meet the requirements and slowly become capable leads. # For laterals this can be a nightmare. # Management is aware of these issues. I am sad that does not help. But this experience does not apply to all employees. There are other projects which are better and its a good experience being there.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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