Take what you can - Process Executive Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
8 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you work in a project with sensitive content there's a fair amount of wellness time (time not spent on productivity), international environment. Okay for brief periods

Cons

They told me in the interview there would be career progression openings every 6 months, turns out it's every year and a half. Most team leaders hate the job and it shows, they're good people but definitely ruined by the company mechanisms that don't allow any changes and keep the employees unhappy. I was hired to work hybrid and now it's 100 per cent at the office. Hr completely unresponsive. Payslips wrong every month. Whenever someone would try to talk about dissatisfaction they would be asked to not lower the moral of the team in the meetings and silenced with basically "it sucks but we're on the same boat so stick with it". Incredibly disorganised. Salary is a joke for a job where you work 7/7 on shifts and bank holidays. Don't do it if you have other offers!

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5.0
27 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

The way the bench status is structured

1.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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