Actually I was working in Chennai in an MNC, and due to family reason had come back to Kolkata. So as the MNC I was working in was not in Kolkata(Especially for my technology), I switched to Cognizant and worked for few years. I had some different experience and observation with this company. I am sharing the same here.
Positive aspect for employees:
This is a company which is profitable if your technology is much demanded.
Policy wise Not so strict, like can be changed based on requirement of project
It is MNC, so good chance to get project and will not stay in bench for long
No dress code as such. You can ware business casuals in any day.
Negative aspects for employees:
Everyone have to follow 9 hrs policy. Then fist swipe in and last swipe out should be more than or equal to 9. The worst part is, the report is generated every week. It indicates you cant do adjustment in next week. But in other MNC where this rule is followed, they generate report in half yearly or yearly.
If you have common technology like Java, .Net, Mainframe etc, then difficult to get your dream fulfilled
Very less Onsite, as no rotation policy at all(May vary in few rare projects)
If not have good terms with managers, then hard to get onsite/Promotions. They dont see only your Performance
There is no performance evolution discussion at all, which is horrible for any employee. When my first rating was published I was shocked, as I was expecting some discussion before that. But unfortunately I couldnot find any such process. Though I had setup meeting after the evolution was published, but it did not help me to get satisfactory answers
Facility is also not good as Other MNC inside office premises.
There is a office placed in Bantala for Kolkata location. If you by mistake posted in that DC, then half of the will be wasted in journey from office to home and home to office.
Regarding Recommendation:
I would say if you have other MNC like: TCS, Infosys, IBM etc, then dont go for Cognizant
As I am currently not in this organization, and I had other offer also when I selected Cognizant but no one was there to guide me then. So I shared this review. Hope it will be helpful.