Cognizant MBAs

MBAs join CTS in the areas of consulting, analytics, business development, opportunity assessment, relationship management, corporate development and domain excellence. CTS does not retrofit B-Schools graduates into technical roles.
Cognizant is increasingly hiring more MBAs. Today, it has one MBA/Domain expert for every 30 software professionals. Four years back, this ratio was one for every 40 to 45 software professionals. In 2007 alone, Cognizant hired more than 700 MBAs from premier campuses as well as from the lateral market.
There are 3 broad reasons why MBAs are more important to an IT company than ever before.
Firstly, clients are looking to their partners like Cognizant to pro-actively provide solutions to their business pressure points, leveraging a deep understanding of their industry trends and competitive landscape, rather than mere technology capability.
Secondly, clients are moving to a broader range of complex solutions, system integration and consulting solutions offshore which need a higher proportion of industry knowledge, domain depth, business analytic capabilities, and business-to-technology requirements translation.
Finally, with business going global and markets getting globalised, clients want domain professionals who have an intricate understanding of the business dynamics in every location and the technology alignment required.
As such, CTS sees its investment in MBAs as a critical differentiator. Their domain depth has helped the organization marry industry knowledge with technological excellence and farm out solutions to business pressure points of customers, rather than mere technology solutions. They have also played a dominant role in winning new customers and in client-facing roles, especially as client partners or relationship managers.