Cognizant EMEA
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Cognizant is a global consulting firm, providing business consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. Their main focus is digital business, digital operations, and digital systems & technology. Key industries include banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing & logistics, retail & consumer goods, information, and media & entertainment.
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Vault Verdict
As a US-based firm with a large outsourcing and fulfillment presence in India, Cognizant is a firm with a huge global reputation. While that reputation may be less strong at present in Europe than the US, the firm is growing quickly, and has set its sights on being a major player in the market. With a track record of success to date, and almost 200,000 employees worldwide, there is little reason to doubt its ability to meet those goals.
As an employer, the firm's scale is an occasional sticking point for insiders—bureaucracy can sometimes be an issue, while standing out from the crowd is significantly more difficult in a firm of this size. That aside, Cognizant insiders seem generally satisfied with life at the firm—everything from co...
About the Company
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant delivers innovative solutions through consulting and IT services with an industry vertical focus. The firm's spectrum of consulting services (Business Strategy, Process and Operations Consulting, Technology Consulting and Business Analysis) is focused on driving transformation, innovation, and optimization for clients. Cognizant drives and executes large business and IT transformation programs, and management consulting engagements. The com...
Employee Reviews
- "Exciting and challenging with huge opportunities for personal / professional growth."
- "Lots of opportunities to get involved with building the consulting business, but client assignments are poor quality from a consulting perspective."
- "I am part of a well funded start up within a great big, growing firm that is focused on the broad range of service consulting and delivery."
- "The consultancy business is growing...
Getting Hired Here
- "Ideal candidates: Motivated, adaptable/flexible, welcomes change, pro-active, skilled and experienced."
- "There have been efforts of late to improve rigour around the interview process, previously there were few competency based questions. I do still think there is too much of a focus on domain skills (e.g. project management) at the expense of consulting or industry knowledge."
- "Interview process can take a long time. The candidates we seek...