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Cognizant is one of the largest professional services companies in the world, providing consulting, technology and operations services to enterprises across most major industries. Its work covers application development and maintenance, cloud migration, data and artificial intelligence platforms, enterprise software implementation, infrastructure management, and the business process operations that sit behind functions such as claims handling, finance and customer service.
The company began in 1994 as the in house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and was spun out as an independent business in 1996. It listed on the Nasdaq in 1998 and today is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, while the majority of its workforce is based in India. Cognizant employs approximately 340,000 people worldwide, with the largest concentrations in Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Coimbatore and the National Capital Region, alongside delivery centres across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
Cognizant organises its business into four segments. Health Sciences serves pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, providers and payers, and is one of the largest healthcare technology practices in the industry. Financial Services covers banking, capital markets and insurance. Products and Resources covers manufacturing, logistics, energy, utilities, travel and hospitality. Communications, Media and Technology serves telecom operators, platform companies and software vendors.
The company's engagement model typically combines onsite consultants working directly with the client and much larger offshore delivery teams, and contracts frequently run for several years covering both new development and the ongoing operation of existing systems. That structure gives engineers exposure to entire application landscapes rather than isolated components, and it means a large part of the organisation is focused on reliability, release management and production support alongside new feature work.
In recent years the company has invested heavily in artificial intelligence, both in building platforms for clients and in applying generative artificial intelligence to its own delivery process, and it has expanded partnerships with the major cloud providers and enterprise software vendors. It also runs one of the largest corporate training operations in India, with structured programmes for graduate entrants and continuous certification pathways for existing staff.
For candidates, Cognizant offers a broad range of entry points. Graduate hiring happens at substantial scale through campus programmes, and lateral hiring spans software engineering across most mainstream stacks, data engineering, cloud and DevOps, quality engineering, enterprise package consulting in SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and ServiceNow, business analysis, project and programme management, and business process operations. The scale of the organisation means internal mobility between industries and technologies is common, and long careers frequently involve several changes of domain.
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Cognizant operates in information technology and consulting services, is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States, employs around 10,001+ people. 48 Cognizant roles have been posted on RefOpen in the last 30 days.
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