Cognizant Complaints & Reviews

Candidate name: anirban mukherjee
Interview date: 6th october, saturday;
Interview location:kolkata cognizant main building opp sdf,
Recruiter (Hr): shaik jakriya;
Job location: kolkata.
Interview skillset: java microservice;
Technical interview: the technical discussion was for around 1 and half hours which was conducted by a panel of 2 interviewers. At the end of the discussion, the panel told me clearly that they are seleting me for hr discussion.
Hr interview : the recruiter told me that they will place me in "m" band and also agreed with salary etc. He also collected passport photo and the form filled by me with other details related to education and experiences (Cis form).

On 17th october, i got a call from akarsh (Akarsh. [protected]@cognizant.com) who is from the recruiter's (Shaik jakriya) team who asked me if i am available for the job offer with cognizant which they are about to rollout.

On 18th october, i got 2 mails:
1st mail - from [protected]@cognizant.com with a hyperlink where i uploaded my photo using my laptop webcam.
2nd mail - from akarsh. [protected]@cognizant.com where i had to respond with the softcopy of the cis (Candidate information sheet) form.
On 19th oct, i replied to his email and also called akarsh. I came to know that the cis softcopy is required for them for bgv and the offer will be based on whatever discussion that took place with shaik jakriya at the time of hr discussion.

After that hr is not responding to my emails and is also not picking up my phone call.

On 5th november, akarsh finally received my call and told me that i will receive the offer in few days.

I am yet to receive any offer from cognizant and they are not responding to any of my emails or phone calls.

I had attended a face to face interview at cognizant thoraipakkam on 10th november 2018, for the hr coordinator post. I haven't received any calls or messges regarding the interview. The person who interviewed me has given his number to contact. I tried calling him for almost 5 times and send mail to the respective people, but none of them responded. I don't know any other way to know my status of the interview.

Hello,

I had given interview on 3rd november for selenium and restapi. After a detailed discussion with the hr, he said i will be getting the confirmation mail and offer letter soon. It's been 12 days already, but i am yet to receive any mail.
It will be very helpful if i get to know the status.

Details:
Name: sumanraj nayak
Mail id: [protected]@gmail.com
Skill: selenium and restapi
Interview date: 3rd november 2018
Interview place : kolkata

Thanks,
Sumanraj nayak

I gave an interview in CTS at as a part of the campus recruitment drive conducted in my college (Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida), cleared all the rounds and was later selected in CTS. All my friends who got selected have already received their offer letters but I haven't.
I am completely clueless about what will happen right and hope to get this resolved soon.

I gave my interview at cts and got a confirmation call that i was selected, proceeding with an email to upload the my documents along with the cis form. I submitted the completed cis form along with the requested documents of education, experience and government id proofs on 01 nov 2018 and have not received any update yet.

My email : [protected]@gmail.com
Hr - sanjit roy

Hi,

I attended an interview at cts pune on 06-oct-2018 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.

Now its been above one month and i have mailed to cts concern person but did't got any reply.

Hi frnds, I received a mail from S.Vinod Karthik mentioning that he will arrange job in CTS .For that we have to pay Rs.1500 as advance and Rs.60, 000 in 10 installments. The mail is,

My name is Vinod and this is regarding openings in software industry towards which I can process your resume.

Following are the details regarding recquirements and process.

I would like to INSIST you that go through entire content of my mail before replying me.

JOB RECQUIREMENTS:

CATEGORY:- SOFTWARE

COMPANY :- Cognizant Technologies ( www.cognizant.com )

SELECTION SCHEDULE:

Selection process schedule would take place on

1. Written-test : Saturday September 24th

2. Technical + Personal Interview : Sunday September 25th

3. Selection-process Venue : Chennai

4. Date of joining : October 1st week

If you are ok with payments both initial and total then I would start up your process immdtly and see that you get necessary confirmation from the company people.

Also if you are not comfortable with above mentioned dates then I would see that you attend process on other dates.I cannot change venue of selection-process and it is recquired by you to attend process in Chennai.Regarding job-posting I can see that you get it in Chennai.

JOB – POSTING :- CHENNAI

EXPERIENCE :- Entry Level

EDUCATION :- B.E/B.Tech, MCA, M.SC ( 2011 passouts / final semester candidates )

SKILL SET RECQUIRED :

KEY SKILLS:- C, C++, CURRICULUM-BASICS

SALARY:- 20, 000/- PER MNTH

JOB PROFILE AND DETAILS :

1. After being selected you will under training for 3mnths.

2. This training will be provided by company people theself.

3. You will be paid your salasry from first month itself which is inclusive of training period.

4. During your training period company people will train you on Microsoft, Java technologies and also on ERP.

5. This training will be on both development and testing aswell.

6. You will working as full-time permanent employee and not no any contract basis.

Regarding other details of company you can find them at their website which is www.cognizant.com

SELECTION PROCESS CRITERIA:

Ur selection would be divided into three rounds.

1. Written-test

This test completely concentrated on aptitude

2. Technical interview

This interview will be on C, C++ and your other curriculum basics.This round will be completely oral.

3. Personal Interview

This interview will be purely regarding your general & educational issues.

MY ROLE AND ASSISTANCE:

Before clearly informing you about me assistance I would clearly inform you that for all this process and all you need to pay me.I have mentioned all the payment below.

MY ASSISTANCE :

1. I will be forwarding your resume to compnay people and also see that you have been shortlisted for selection-process.This will be clearly evident to you when you will receive your call-letter for selection process.

2. This call for selection-process you will receive it directly from company people and not from me / any third party consultant.

3. Only after receieving call-letter from company people you are recquired to pay me for which details are mentioned below.

4. After receieving call-letter from company people I will be providing you with papers for your selection-process.I will be providing you with papers recquired for each and every round.

5. Yes whatever the papers I will be providing that will be enough for your selection-process.

6. Even after providing papers I will assist you in all the rounds of selection process.Let me explain you clearly how am I going to do this.After receiving all the papers you prepare well and when you attend the process you see that you perform minimum of 5.5 ( 55% ) out of 10 ( 100% )in written-test and technical interview rounds.Remaining things will be covered by me with help of my concerned people.

7. By doing all this I will be able to see that you get appointed.

PAYMENT:

Payment comes in two parts both initial and total.

INITIAL PAYMENT:

1. Initial payment will be 1500/- rs .

2. This amount should be paid only after you receive your interview call-letter for attending selection-process.This call-letter you will be receiving directly from company people.

3. As I told earlier I will sending papers for your selection-process only after this payment is being done.

4. As I mentioned above you will be receiving your call-letter directly from company people.This way you will be secured that you will be attending process with company.This will be the security which you can have from me.

Let me clear ur doubt about why to pay initial amount of 1500/- rs.

I mentioned clearly above about my role and my assistance.After receiving your call-letter and papers for your selection-process.When you attend the process you need to see that you should perform upto min % recquired which I mentioned earlier.In any case if you fail to do so then will loose my effort and also loose one position on my behalf.By saying this I do not comment on your potential.This is towards my security.

TOTAL PAYMENT:

1. Total payment will be three times of per month salary.

2. For this position company people will be offering 20, 000 per mnth salary.

3. You need to pay me 20, 000 * 3 = 60, 000

4. This 60, 000 has to be paid in ten equal installments that 60, 000 / 10 = 6, 000 per installment.

5. Each installment has to be paid from your respective salary which will be as follows.

From your first month salary – first installment of 6, 000

From your second month salary – second installment of 6, 000

From your third month salary – third installment of 6, 000

From your fourth month salary – fourth installment of 6, 000

From your fifth month salary – fifth installment of 6, 000

From you sixth month salary – sixth installment of 6, 000

This way upto ten months

This way youl will be having your job security.

Now let me inform that In worst case if there is a failure.Yes I will carry your process towards other companies if there is failure.

First let me inform you failure can be either from your side or from my side.

YOUR SIDE: You have not performed upto min % which is recquired by me.

In this stage I will process your resume towards other companies for which you need not have to pay me 1500/- rs for each and evry company.

FROM MY SIDE : You have performed upto or abobve min % recquired and even after that you have not been appointed with company.This will be failure from side.

In this stage I would definetly return the INITIAL AMOUNT which U have paid to me.Also If you feel you can continue with me then I will be processing your resume towards other companies.

Now I hope ur clear with both payments.

TIME CONSTRAINT:

If you are ok with both payments then we should see that process is started 1-2 days.Upone starting process I like to see that you get mjaximum time for preparation so that we can have better results.

MY PERSONAL DETAILS:

I was an employee with Kareer Edge Technologies forum in Bangalore/Chennai.

Right now I have left that forum becoz of some personal problems.

As becoz of my earlier work atmosphere i'm able to handle things with said manner so that I can look upon people getting recruited.

Also I have recieved your resume from Invika Technologies Bangalore.

Also I'm having follwoing resume o[censored]r's which I'm attaching with my mail.

Note: Finally if you are ok with my process ( along with payments of both initial and total, process dates ) reply me along with your latest updated resume along with your contact no.

S.VINOD KARTHIK

Then I replied to him as I am interested in it and requested to move further.Two days later he called me and confirmed it. The next day he send me a call letter resembling same as a call letter from cognizant from the company mail id(FAKE MAIL) and asked me to deposit Rs.1500 to his SBI Account ([protected]). But I didn't do tat . When I came through complaint forums, I confirmed it as a fraud. The call letter looks like,

Dear John Ibrahim!

We appreciate your keen interest in working with COGNIZANT and in this
regard you are required to attend selection process with us.

Following are the necessary details for your selection process.

Your selection process code : B-15

Written-test :

Date :[protected]
Time : 11.00 am
Duration : 1 1/2 hrs

Technical-interview :

Date :[protected]
Time : 11.00 am
Duration : 1 hr

Personal Interview :

Date :[protected]
Time : 2.00 pm
Duration : 45mins

You are required to attend the whole process at following venue

#5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road,
Okkiam -Thoraipakkam,
Chennai 600 096
You will be reimbursed of your charges once you complete your first Level
of selection-process.

You are required to carry following along with you at the time of
selection process

1). Duplicate copies of your certificates.
2). Your complete updated resume.
3). Three passport size photograph of yours.
4). Hard copy of this mail.

You are required to be at the venue one hour before on the day of
written-test.You will be given contact details on the day of written-test.

For more information on COGNIZANT visit our website www.cognizant.com.

We request you to plan your availability accordingly.Do not reply to this
mail.

Regards
HRD Recruitment.
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I was interviewed on aug 23rd 2018 at bengalore - manyatha tech park, had completed all the rounds including hr. I was informed that offer letter will be released in week.

Still i have not received offer letter from cts. I have attended through consultancy, i have following up with them, i am not getting proper response from them and saying, they will send offer. Its been more than 2 moths since i attended interiew.

Could you please help me, how to resolve this.?

Thanks,
Raja sekhar reddy moola

I attended the interview at cognizant pune location on 6th october. All the rounds and hr discussion was cleared by me and the package discussion was done. They told me that i will be getting the offer letter within a couple of weeks
However, its been more than a month now and i havent received a single email from them regarding anything.
I contacted the hr a few times via email but no response was given.

Pathetic from the side of such a huge mnc. A huge disappointment from a company i was looking forward to work with.

I've attended cognizant off campus drive on 27th oct 2018 in hyderabad at dlf cyber city gachibowli and i've cleared technial and hr interviews and it's been 2 weeks and i didn't get any mail regarding my status whether i'm selected or not. One of my friend who cleared the interview along with me got the offer letter on 09th nov 2018. So please take my request and send the confirmation as soon as possible,

Thank you

Respected sir/madam
I have attended cognizant off campus interview in cognizant (Hyderabad)
On 27 october 2018 through amcat. I have cleared all the rounds and (Gd+tr+hr). The hr also asked me to sign on a document. After 13 days some of my friends who attended hr got the shortlisted mails except me.
Can anyone please help me to sort my problem.
My amcat i'd - [protected]
Mail id - [protected]@gmail.com
Token number on the interview date - 142

Respected sir/madam i attended cognizant off campus interview in cognizant (Hyderabad) on[protected] through amcat. I cleared all the rounds and (Gd+tr+hr). The hr also asked me to sign on a document. After 13 days all the members who attended hr got the shortlisted mails except me.
Can anyone please help.

My details:
Amcat id: [protected]
Email id : [protected]@gmail.com
Contact no : [protected]
Token number : 135 (Assigned during interview)

I had attended interview for pl/sql on 8th september 2018 and got confirmation mail on 18th september 2018. After that on 10th october 2018, i got mail to update photo and other details. And hr also contacted me asking for pan details.
After that no response from the hr end.

When will be the offer letter be released.?
Please share ur view on this.

I had completed my face to face technical round (Hadoop developer) and hr discussions on 8th of september 2018 at cts kandanchavadi chennai location. And i had received a mail "interview status as select" from cognizant talent acquisition team on 18th of september 2018.

And after that i received a call from cts the very next day i. E, 19th of september explaining that the hadoop developer role is in hold and asked my confirmation for processing my candidature as hadoop admin. I confirmed them i am okay with that but after that i haven't received any mail or offer from their side.

I have sent several mails to the concerned people but they haven't replied yet. What will be the possible solution for this???

Hi team,

My doj is dec 2018, all pre joining formalities are done but my bgv is in progress still. Suddenly i am unable to login to onboarding portal. I asked h. R about it. H. R said that they are recreating the offer again. If recreated the offer, again do we need to do all formalities again?
H. R said my previous cmny is in blacklisted and let bgv complete then resign from current company. But i havr all documents with me form16 also.

I appeared for interview on 06-Oct-18 at Manyata Embassy Business Park, Mahogany Bangalore location for SAP Security & GRC. I would like to thank you for the smooth and wonderful experience I had with Cognizant interview experience, the interview were impressed my skill and selected me for both Development and Support projects. After two rounds of technical and managerial interview in hr round after discussion about package and location i have been told that i will receive offer letter within a week. I have had received a confirmation by them on 12th Oct via auto generated email "CognizantTAG"

Post the concurrence, I tried to reach out my POC and HR but unfortunately I have not received any communication from there side. So, could I please be informed about the progress made?

My POC/HR were Kashmira Yadav and Chetan Patil

I have attended interview on 29th september for testing profile hr told like within 10days we will release offer but till now i haven't received any mail from them kindly update me the status am waiting for feedback
In call letter they have mentioned poc except that they haven't mentioned any contact number it's been 40days till now i haven't received call/ mail from cognizant people
Mail id=[protected]@gmail.com

Hi,

I have attended interview on September 22nd, 2018 for IBM Websphere Datapower profile at Cognizant hyderabad, Cleared all rounds and HR informed me that i will be getting offer letter in few days.

Couple of weeks back got a mail from Cognizant to upload photo in the portal, Haven't got any update from HR or TAG Cognizant. HR is not responding to my mails and im not finding any medium to contact cognizant HR team.

Email ID : [protected]@outlook.com

Hi,
I attended interview for informatica developer on 27th oct 2018 at asv suntechpark in chennai. After technical round, they gave me candidate information form to fill. After that hr round was done. They told i will get my offer letter soon. Is there anyone who attended on same day and got any update/mail from cts.
After 2 days i got mail like.. Some one has refered me to cts. Did anyone got the same type of mail??

I have cleared 2 technical rounds and 1hr on 28th july 2018 at 'congizant sb road' branch. Afterword i got the call for client round which i have given on 21 august 2018 itself.

Suddenly i got call from hr on 28th sep and asked for the pan card number and dob to release the offer letter. But still i didn't get offer letter.

But still didn't get offer letter and no response from the hr.

Worst experience with cognizant.