Cognizant Complaints & Reviews

The HRSS benefit team is not at all responding from my request, I was suppose to send the ASR forms which i did and when i asked did they receive first time they said no, then again i sent it again, they confirmed that they received the second one, when i was checking the status on this, now they say they have not received it and they dont even care to respond to my request

Hi,
I have attended the interview on 16-july-2016 (Saturday) and completed the interview including the hr round. Hr informed me that i will get the offer letter in couple of weeks. I am an ex-cognizant employee and would like to rejoin cts immediately as i am on maternity leave for couple of years. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to work in cts. Request you to kindly do the needful to complete the joining formalities as earlier as possible. Following are my details:

Name: vidhya manoharan
Ex. Emp. Id: 129238
Interview date: 16-jul-2016
Interview status: completed hr round
Phone: [protected], [protected]
Point of contact: venkatesan.[protected]@cognizant.com

Thanks,
Vidhya m
[protected]

I left the CTS organizations last year, after that i forgot about the food card and the balance amount in that. When card was about to expire, I got reminder, but by the time I check my e-mail on that card was expired. When I called HDFC bank people asking about my balance, they told contact prepaid section. Then I e-mailed details to pre-paid cards. they told to contact your CTS. In Cognizant whom to contact? I got some HR number called up... they are like I am not the right person. so what to do.. where my money goes.

Hi team,
I have been requested my pf withdrawal after 5 years.
I have submitted form 10c/19 along with other required documents to epf office chennai directly.
After two months they updated status as the request got rejected due to form 15g unavailable and the same has sent to your employer. Please check with them.
I reached to my employer (Cognizant technology solutions chennai). They sent me again form 15g and...

Hi,

I am Arun from chennai. I have attended interview with CTS on March 5th and Aug 6th 2016. I got cleared and filled HR assesment forms both times. But didnt receive any information after that.

I have mailed the HR person who sent the interview letter but didnt get any response.

I thought This time I would get a offer letter for sure but Its been two weeks that I didnt get any updates.

Please help me on this

Thanks
Arun
[protected]

I have submitted my pf forms and details to the above mentioned company for pf withdrawal procedure last 2 years back. Now it has been processed but it rejected with status as mentioned below:

Reason of rejection: form 15 g / 15h
Remarks by da/ao:member not signed in delcration of non-employment, form-15g & it pan not enclosed./oknot signed/ attested
Remarks by da/ao:member not signed in delcration of non-employment, form-15g & it pan not enclosed./ok

But i have submitted the forms which the company has provided earlier 2 years back. I am now clueless as what is going on with my pf settlement.


Please advice or help me on this issue.

Thanks,
Kanchan dokania

I got a call from cognizant chennai[protected].
They told me to come for office but i won't trace out exact location. I am trying to call the same number the number is continuously busy, so any one please send me the exact address please it is very useful for me.
Any one please help me to trace the exact address and find to get it i am very thankful.

After qualifying 5 rounds for Adword -Digital Profile | Google Process Google (1 Tech Written + 1HR Technical + 1 tech google hangout round for approx 32 mins + 1 Google hangout advanced level (Approx 7 mins +1 written ) I never heard back from her too for release date after a mail where she asked to upload my documents.
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I interviewed at cognizant mumbai powai on 16th july 2016 and cleared all the round and shared the cis form with hr.
After that she is not receiving any calls and not giving me status.
I have even posted query in cognizant official website and mailed few talent acquisition hr's but still i haven't received any response so far.
I have another offer letter and date of joining is 17th aug. so i don't have time wait for the offer letter. i have to take decision as earliest, where i need to go. please help me out in this regard.

Hello,
I received my offer letter on 25 June from Cognizant stating to join on 13th July 2016. I have uploaded all my documents in cognizant portal as mentioned in joining formalities by 30th June. My reference ID in cognizant is 9153161. Based on this offer letter i got released from my previous organisation i.e. WIPRO on 2nd July. On 6th July cognizant HR reached out to me & stated that my university (TGOU - The Global Open University,...

Due to technical issue you have provided new hdfc food plus card, but money is not yet transferred from old card to my new food card
Please transfer money to my new food card.

Details are as below:

Old card number: [protected]

New card numbr:[protected]

Employee id – 415887 (cognizant technology solutions)

Regards,
Puvaneswari
[protected]...

I have given the interview for cognizant for a lateral joinee
After clearing two rounds of interview post the discussion with hr on role and ctc, offer letter has not been released post 40 days till now.

Not even replying the status even after multiple reminder mails and not ready even to respond properly for the call.

I dont want to reveal any names here.

Any suggestions/help how to get the status on the offer letter is really appreciable. I know my spoc for this offer (With whom its pending).

Hi,

I attended an interview at cts pallikaranai on May 21st 2016 and cleared all the rounds. At the end HR informed me that I will receive my offer letter in a week but I haven't received yet. Meanwhile I received an email from cts talent acquisition to upload my Photo in one of their portal. After that, I haven't received any updates. I am not sure if normally they would take almost a month to release the offer letter....

I used the food card from cts (Asv) location and the amount of inr 30 was deducted twice but the bill was not generated on (6/9/16), i was requested to drop a mail in order to get the refund. Kindly do the needful.

Still today i was deducted of amount inr 55 but the bill was not generated in the machine and have to pay the bill separately. Please help.

This is Regarding offer letter issused by cognizant. I have attended an interview in cognizant before
few days back and completed all my rounds.I received an offer from Talent Acquisition Group HR Team Congnizant and the
mail is [protected]@cognizant.com.But I have a small doubt the Mail is from Eternal Domain i.e; Via orbit.eternalimpact.info
and I have no any Reference number with me.Just I wanted to check with u wheather its genuine or not.i got a mail kavita.[protected]@cognizant.com.

Cognizant has ruined my career. I got an offer letter last year, and signed in to its external portal. They told they will send me my date of joining. It has been more than a year now, they haven't sent me anything. They are not replying to my emails. I have been waiting for the date of joining for over a year, i even filled up pf declaration forms. This is not how companies should treat freshers. I hope indian govt takes action against cognizant for ruining the career a youth.

Hi team,

My old food plus card has expired and i have got new food plus card below are the details.
Please let me know when and how much time it will take to transfer the balance amount from old card to new card?

Details:
Employee name: nagalakshmi chegu
Employee id: 225324
Old card number: [protected]
New card number: [protected]


Regards
Lakshmi

This mail is to share my bad experiences with the interview process happening in Chennai Cognizant office.

Myself had a two bad experiences with interview in Cognizant (CTS) Chennai. Please spare sometime to read the below, which of the CTS approach with interview made us highly frustrated.

My first experience was before some 7 months. I had received a call from well known Consultancy stating that, there is a interview going to happen with CTS on one fine Saturday at Varalakshmi techpark premises OMR chennai. I clearly mentioned my about my profile and expained what kind of job I'm looking for. The concultancy person, didn't even listened and they said CTS is hiring huge number of candidates and your profile perfectly suits for the role what they are looking for... Couple of days later HR person from CTS itself called me and verified about the same. Again, I have asked everything and she also said the same to me. I have confirmed whether it is a walkin or a Scheduled interview. Both mentioned that it as a scheduled interview.

I reached the venue by 10 AM on that day. It was shocking, I saw a huge crowd of more than 2000 candidates waiting for the interview process to happen. The HR people from CTS not even sure what they are doing and just was carrying some papers and roaming here and there. After long time, waiting in the parking lot, They called people in bunches and asked wait inside the ODC's.

Then it was around 4 PM at the evening, no one directed us to whom the resume should be provided and what is the proces at all. I voluntarlily went to a person and asked for the same. He re-directed me to some other person and he re-directed me again to another person. Then, finally they put me to interview panel who was expecting a candidate with 3 to 4 years of experience in Active Directory profile. I had 8+ years of experience and my skill set is ITIL Process. He said, CTS is currently not looking out for such profile and asked me to leave. Look, how pathetic the interview process was...

My second bad experience was during last week (21st May 2016), interview happened in Navalur chennai. This time, I have received e-mails and calls directly from CTS HR, about the interview and job profile they are looking for. Thank god, atleast this time, they have reached me with the proper JD, which actually suits me.

Again, I have checked whether it is a scheduled interview or Walk-in kind of interview. She said it as a scheduled interview. Look at the mail subject line.

I have completed my night shift on friday 20th May and reached Navalur which was around 30+ kms far away from my home in this chennai summer. I was shocked once again, I reached the venue because there was around 1000 people waiting for the interview process to happen. One good thing, was they have collected the resume at the first and made us to wait in the lobby, this time rather making us to wait in the parking lot.

I could see that, the HR person were calling all the job profiles for first level interview, except ITIL SO role candidates who were all waiting since morning 10 AM. Finally after lunch, around by 3.00 PM they have started calling ITIL candidates for first round of interview. For me the first round got completed by 3:45 PM and he asked me wait so that he can put me to the next level of interview.

There were several candidates waiting for the second round interview and HR discussions, for very long time and that wasn't happened at all. The most worrying and pathetic part of the interview, was only one person was interviewing all the ITIL SO / Incident Management candidates from the beginning. That's why it took so long. I had a question raised in my mind, being a such big company CTS shouldn't plan properly and have sufficient number of interview panels to cover the candidates?????

The time was around 5.30 PM and the one and only person who was interviewing was in a hurry to leave for the day, since he had some personal committments. These HR persons, were started bugging the interviewer to interview few more candidates and he finally accepted to do so...

Then the time was around 7:00 and the interviewer was totally out of patience and started to leave for the day without interviewing us (Myself and there were around 20+ candidates who were waiting from morning). Finally, these bacha HR's were not sure what to do and what reason they suppose to provide us. Then they finally discussed on how to manage the situation and came up with pre-hire form to pacify everyone o[censored]s and asked to fill the same. There was a promise from HR stating that everyone will receive a call on Monday (that is on 23rd May) to have further discussions over phone. It is already week over and I could see none of the candidates who filled the form have received any such calls from the HR persons.

Just wanted to be more clear, If CTS is planning for interview sessions just for eye-wash or for time pass during saturday's then we are not the right candidates to do so...

I'm sure, I will not receive any call further regarding the second round or for the HR discussions anymore as a follow-up for the interview happened in 21st May. That is the reason I'm spending time to draft this e-mail to make you guys know how bad we are treated and how pathetic the interview sessions with CTS are happening in Chennai.

Would like to say one last thing, we as IT employees only get weekends to spend time with our family and kids, don't plan for timepass interviews and fake interview panels during saturday and make us to wait from morning to evening and waste our time. Which is not at all ethical and really creates such a bad impression on the entire company profile.

I have really experienced bad saturday on 21st May, since I have done my night shift work previous day and didn't even slept properly. You bloody guys made me to wait in the lobby for entire day, without even conducting the second round interview, with the burning eyes...

I'm damn sure, I'm not going to get any call further regarding the next round interview. I'm least bothered about the same. But wanted to highlight the concerns regarding interviews happening with Cognizant (CTS) company in chennai. I would definitely share my experiences with my surroundings and friends, and insist them to not apply for any role in CTS and do not co-operate if they receive any call from CTS HR saying there is a bloody, (scheduled) interview is going to happen on Saturdays...

So atleast you people will plan for good interview experiences in future for the candidates who reaches CTS for job...

I'm highly frsutrated, and I was thinking about to use unethical words... but to be as a professional, I don't want to do so. I expect CTS is a professional company and will not follow the same in future.

Hi,

This is regarding a person who is issuing fake offer letters on the name of Kavita Kumari. His name is V N Shankar. He calls people stating that there will be 2 rounds of interview. Technical interview will be taken care by their people and Hr discussion should be faced by the candidate on phone. Once the resume is send to him, he will call u after 1 week that the technical interview is cleared and get ready for the hr round. Then the candidate will get a call from +91 [protected] stating that he is an HR form cognizant will discuss about the salary. After couple of days, the candidate will receive the fake offer sent to him by kavita.[protected]@cognizant.com. This is happned with my friend and they are asked him to pay 1.8 Lakhs. I said to my friend thats a fake offer & dont send any money. Please take action against these people and put them in Jail. They are cheating the innocent people for money. They should be punished severly.

I interviewed at cognizant okkiyam, thoraipakkam chennai on 7 may 2016 and cleared all the round. Hr told me u will get offer letter by next week but did not get any confirmation mail and formal offer letter till now. I have even posted query in cognizant official website and mailed few talent acquisition hr's but still i haven't received any response so far. Please help me out in this regard.