Local? Move on- those negative reviews are true! - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
27 Jan 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The life insurance/benefits policy is a good deal vis-a-vis those of competitor firms Employee engagement events (admittedly, employees staffed on projects have little time for these and they seem to exist to keep the Corporate teams engaged, as another reviewer has rightly suspected too!)

Cons

Highly political environment- ratings depend on whom you know than the quality of your work. The rating process itself is poorly designed, inefficient and fraught with loopholes that allow political managers to tweak the system to their advantage. Your projects are likely to be back-end implementation work on technologies from the previous century. Little to offer by way of opportunities to learn or upskill. The firm's policy of being unconcerned so long as you're being billed doesn't help. Huge cliques of non-locals (this is the IT industry after all, be warned!). Expect slow promotions, rigged non-transparent appraisals that favour certain favourites- belonging to a certain ethnic group may work in your favour. Local graduates are hired solely to meet demands laid down by authorities and shouldn't entertain hopes of a flourishing career, unless they keep their heads down and do all that's asked of them.

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Cons

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Pros

Cognizant can be a great place to work at. You have to be self-motivated and driven. You won't often be given a script on how to do your job well. But if you are willing to search for new opportunities, you will find success.

Cons

Just like many other tech companies, layoffs are happening all the time. This often brings many projects to a complete halt. Management never communicates when someone is laid off. And when they are laid off, they often never back fill positions, leaving existing team members working the equivalent of three jobs at once. Most teams there are skeleton crews, ensuring that they cannot reach their full potential.

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