Cognizant reviews

Acquisition by Cognizant is introducing an unhealthy work/life balance and a lot of burnout. Offshore calls are now necessary for project success. This means either early morning or late night calls and sometimes both. There isnt a good option for sleep and personal life because while we "need" to be on offshore calls our clients are paying us to be available to support them during their working hours. Add to the fact that the burnout on the project team is making successful projects more difficult to achieve and you have a recipe for failure and mass burnout. When things go poorly the company will just redirect everyone to a singular goal and make weekends mandatory; this works in limited crisis situations but not for extended durations. Many people are reaching a point of despair and hopelessness that is not driving a mass exodus but actually is driving steady turnover which will be dangerous over the course of a couple years. Those who have been with TriZetto for years will begin to disappear and be replaced.

Bought by Cognizant (an off-shore company)... Bringing in off-shore workers. Management mostly above director level and the Politics in Consulting Services. Listen to the people that have the knowledge from outside of TriZetto on how to implement change. They bring people in for improvement and don't use the advice they seek and truly need. Or when they do use the advice and the credit goes to someone undeserving that didn't even work on that project, fix or issue. Many of the senior managers have been with TriZetto for years. They do not know how to implement change in a large corporation; therefore the solution/answer is... Reorg every 6 months to hide the things that never get fixed. Advice, If you're not in the inner circle, conform. There is no true open door policy. Managers that fail in very large projects of programs get promoted or shuffled into a newly created role. Want specifics, promoting people into jobs they have zero experience or are not qualified for... For instance hypothetically: Let's promote someone with no Project Management experience to run a Project Management team. Makes sense, right? Then not listen to members of team that have been in the weeds and know what the true issues are. Stop covering it up and throwing people on your steams under the bus. No direction/support from direct managers (VP level). The culture & values would be great if they truly followed them and stopped getting rid of the people that actually implemented them. No TRUST... Nope.