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April 2016

Placement activity details — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.65.210.207 (talk) 12:50, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Company Nationality

Cognizant is an Indian company

That was removed. Given that nearly 40% of the employees are in India, and the leaders seem to be of Indian decent I think it inappropriate that the fourth word in the listing is the word American and that the true colors are put in a small paragraph at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.76.209.132 (talk) 06:19, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

References

Some of the company's leader's "seeming to be of" Indian decent, and "40% of employees" working in India are not acceptable reasons for calling the company "Indian". The company is Teaneck-based and Nasdaq-listed. It is an American MNC. Given the frivolous nature of this neutrality flag, I am taking this off under "It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given.". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scenecontra (talk • contribs) 17:30, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Given that many complaints about the company are written in stilted English (https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Cognizant-considered-among-worst-IT-companies-in-India) (https://www.quora.com/Which-company-is-best-in-India-Accenture-or-Cognizant-Why) (https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cognizant-Technology-Solutions-RVW4856162.htm) . Even while saying it is an American Company Abhishek Shukla, who worked at Cognizant, points out it has Indian leadership and culture. (https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Cognizant-considered-to-be-an-Indian-company)

Exxon is incorporated in New Jersey - however they say they are a Texas company. The article has "July 1997, Dun & Bradstreet bought Satyam's 24% stake in DBSS for $3.4 million.[8][9] Headquarters were moved to the United States," — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.191.84.25 (talk • contribs) 06:26, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

I also find it amusing that Scenecontra and 240b:11:4c20:4710:61c8:3a27:67f5:2d27 go out of their way to say it is a United States company (see edits made May 1 - May 10, 2019 or so.)

I suspect Scenecontra would call Exxon a New Jersey company and Medtronic an Irish company. I disagree and think that the nationality of the founders, culture, and location of employees should weigh heavily in making that determination. Where the executives want to live - likely a tax haven with favorable laws - should be a minimal factor.

Also, can SceneContra edit his comments? I think by "neutrality flag" he means "nationality". And if this is frivolous, just let us have our way and call it an Indian company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.191.83.57 (talk • contribs) 15:38, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Moves HC (High Court)

This construction implies they successfully changed the feelings of the court. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-say-a-person-moved-the-Supreme-Court-instead-of-saying-a-person-moved-the-case-to-the-Supreme-Court-Is-it-related-to-any-English-grammar-rules.

That is not supported by the article the headline appears in. I'm putting it in quotes and marking the word with [sic] to indicate it is exactly how it appeared in The Hindu article by Mohamed Imranullah S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.191.84.25 (talk • contribs) 07:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Controversy

IP User 2405:104 ... from Himmatnagar in the Telangana region wrote, "There were fake allegations agaisnt [sic] the company which are being highlighted by the competitors[.] This is not acceptable and such issues pertaining to the company shouldn't be publicly highlighted[.] There are issues with Accenture as well[;] then [sic] why wiki isn't [sic] highlighting those?"

The allegations are well sourced. And it is wiki contributors and not competitors highlighting them. While it might be different in India, a company that claims to be American should live by American rules of transparency. I suggested that as a wiki contributor s/he was free to highlight items such as https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Investigating-Outsourcing/Accenture-and-Capgemini-latest-corporations-identified-as-tax-avoiders. Indeed, I encouraged it. 75.191.81.167 (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2019 (UTC) J

Poor English and NPOV

Regardless of the edit war on this page trying to remove content critical of Cognizant, it is true that a lot of the "Controversies" section is written very poorly and violates NPOV. E.g.: "20 senior executives, above the Director's Level were dismissed because they were not able to catch up with the latest technologies. The number of the executives that were dismissed is unusually high and questions the ability of the company to catch up with the latest technologies." This is not encyclopedic style.