Need guidance from Cognizant employees/experienced hires.

I received a Cognizant offer with DOJ in June 2026 and resigned from my current company based on that timeline. Recently HR informed me that onboarding has been postponed due internal leadership/business discussions and I received a revised offer letter with DOJ moved to July 2026. The offer, designation and compensation remain unchanged.

Has anyone faced similar DOJ postponements in Cognizant?
Did onboarding happen smoothly afterward?

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Don’t worry you will be onboarded. I have faced this issue, now I’m a CTS employee anyways.

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They will send you the offer letter.

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I have an offer from Cognizant which has delayed my previous date of joining from 15 june to 24 july and it provides a hybrid work model. Whereas I also have offer from TCS where they are asking me to join as early as possible as 11 june is my last working day at current organisation and TCS has strict 5 days work from office and they have lot many projects in TCS. Only 10 days left for my notice period. Which offer should I accept and join? I want job safety and don't want to be on bench for a long time. I'm confused which organisation should I join? Compensation is almost same in Cognizant and TCS. TCS is giving 1 LPA more than cognizant. Please anyone suggest. Having 4 years of experience and TCS is hiring me as IT Analyst grade C2 where as cognizant has hired me as developer role.

As per my opinion you should go with TCS as waiting for Cognizant for about 40 days is not worth it. Both TCS and Cognizant are service based companies so both are 99% the same. I would suggest taking opinions from a few more people and don't make any decisions from only my opinion.

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I'm in the same situation. I'm an experienced professional and they have provided my joining on mid june. But hr called me told that due to organisational changes we have postponed joining on end of July. Unable to decide what to do. Already resigned from my current organisation.

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Have sent you request on LinkedIn . Please accept

Restructuring (layoffs) is happenning in CTS.

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I am also in the same situation. Cognizant has delayed my DOJ to 24 July from 15 June.

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have sent you a connection request on LinkedIn. Please accept

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Did you got doj mail for joining and what's is date in july

Yes I got the revised DOJ to July 15th

Hi,my doj is in june . But I want July doj but hr is saying she can't give July doj now.she will do it later .what do I do now? I don't have any other offer also.

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