Cognizant purchased 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats for Cognizant associates, along with 500 Sales Copilot seats and 500 Services Copilot seats
Tata Consultancy Services has topped the LinkedIn's latest list of top companies to work for in India, followed by Accenture and Cognizant in the second and third place respectively. Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Tuesday released the 2024 Top Companies list for India wherein IT companies bagged the top three ranks, while financial services firms dominated the list with 9 out of 25 companies from this sector. The 8th edition has derived insights from LinkedIn data, and lists the top 25 large companies, 15 best mid-size companies, and provides insights on in-demand skills, top locations, and the largest job functions within these companies. Amongst large companies (500+ employees in India), Tata Consultancy Services retained its top spot this year, followed by Accenture and Cognizant. Continuing the trend from last year, financial services dominated the 2024 list with 9 out of 25 companies from this sector including Macquarie Group (4th place), Morgan Stanley (5th), an
Cognizant's filing with Nasdaq mentioned the CEO's performance stock units (PSUs) and restricted stock units (RSUs)
While analysts and industry watchers saw Delaporte's exit coming, it was not expected to be this abrupt, this soon
Nasdaq-listed information technology company employs some 250,000 people in India
Cognizant said that the majority of its associates have seen four merit increases within 3 years, with the last cycle being April 1, 2023
Ravi Kumar S, the CEO of Cognizant, has joined the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum as a member of its board of directors, it was announced on Tuesday. Ravi is a doyen in the tech industry and is a foremost thought leader who has unparalleled insights on the dynamic and fast-changing nature of the tech sector, USISPF president and CEO Mukesh Aghi said in an announcement. In an era of a digital-first economy and digital trade, Cognizant's work through the years exemplifies the burgeoning collaboration in the US-India technology partnership success story, he said. India's robust tech talent remains pivotal in fortifying and expanding the tech sector within the United States, Aghi said. Congratulating Ravi, USISPF Chairman John Chambers said the Cognizant CEO is an accomplished leader in IT services, and his broad experience in the industry touching digital transformation, engineering services, data analytics, and more puts him in the top calibre of experts supporting ...
Around 254,000 of Cognizant's 347,700 employees are based in India, making it the firm's largest employee base, according to its annual report
Total global headcount of Cognizant at the end of 2023 was 347,700, with nearly 250,000 employees in India
The firm, based in Teaneck, New Jersey, reported a 7 per cent increase in net profit at $558 million for the December quarter
Wipro sued Dalal, accusing him of violating the non-compete clause in his employment contract by joining rival Cognizant within 12 months from his last date of work
Cognizant, in December last year, sought an interim stay on all recovery proceedings against it and offered to pay the base amount of Rs 1,500 crore in cash
Cognizant pulling top executives from rivals has triggered a legal battle at a time when the pie is shrinking
A civil court in Bengaluru will pass orders on January 3 on two interlocutory applications (IA) by Wipro Limited's former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jatin Pravinchandra Dalal seeking arbitration with his former company. The suit filed by Wipro on November 28 seeks payment of compensation of Rs 25,15,52,875 with interest of 18 per cent for allegedly violating a clause in his employment contract with the company. Dalal resigned from Wipro in September and is set to join rival Cognizant in January. Allegedly, the non-compete clause prevents Dalal from joining a rival within one year of leaving the company, failing which he would be liable to compensate Wipro with the value of the Restricted Stock Units (RSU) allotted to him or the sum of his total remuneration in the previous 12 months. Earlier on November 28, the counsel for Dalal had filed a memo stating that the defendant was hospitalised. In a subsequent hearing, Dalal's counsel filed IA No 4 under Section 8(2) of the Arbitrati
Infosys sent a written communication to Cognizant after a number of its senior executives left to join the firm
The IT giant also recently filed a complaint against its former senior executive Mohd Haque, and accused him of violating a non-compete clause embedded within his employment contract
Dalal has sought that the matter be referred to arbitration, the case will now be heard by a Bengaluru civil court on January 3
The company has already vacated 1.15 million square feet of office space in Chennai, including 500,000 square feet in the DLF Cybercity SEZ and 650,000 square feet in the Ramanujan IT SEZ
The revenue for Q4 is expected to be in the range of $4.69-$4.82 bn, a fall of 4% to 1.2% in constant currency, due to furloughs and lower number of working days in the Dec quarter
Dalal will report to Ravi Kumar S, Cognizant's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who joined the company last October