Cognizant reviews

Cognizant is consistently pushing to move as much work as possible to India and leave as few employees in the US as possible. It became increasingly difficult- almost impossible- to move upwards if you are a US employee without the desired "background." Opportunities are routinely made available to Indian associates only, even when promised to US employees as well ("it's not in our US team budget after all.") Levels of bureaucracy have been introduced making it increasingly difficult- almost impossible- for employees/processors to simply complete basic everyday tasks. (When someone creates a bot to help employees log into everything they need to log into or when you literally have to open a ticket to get approval to open a ticket, a line has been crossed. Also, favoritism trickles down from the top, with each successive layer down playing favorites.

Well where do we start? They bought two amazing consultancies and turned them into absolute crap. At the beginning their promise was that they would let these companies keep their own culture and processes, but soon Cognizant took over and gradually wiped off every single good thing about them. Shortly after, Cognizant got rid of those companies' brands and buried them entirely! On top of that, there is a huge disconnect between the management and the other staff, and they are very dishonest about the status quo. They promised everyone that they are attracting a lot of new clients, and everything is going well. Two weeks later, they sent a redundancy notice to a lot of the staff. To make it worse, they told those on the list that they have 10 business days to find a new client; otherwise, goodbye! Overall, they have created an environment of secrecy and ambiguity, such that the consultants see each other as rivals rather than teammates.