Pros
It was a great opportunity to work on a project for and with a different company, which hired a team of specialists and consultants via Cognizant Private healthcare included in benefits as standard
Cons
The biggest con was being employed by Cognizant rather than the client. This made communication additionally difficult, and I never felt like I belonged to either organisation. Cognizant makes no effort with its employees. For example, while there are training opportunities available, its all a tick-box excersize and noone really cares about your development or career progression. You're nothing more but a number to the senior managers. This was reflected in the messy experience that was the redundancy process. With HR in India, which did not fully read up on the UK Law, it ended up being many weeks of chasing details that shouldn't be chased, miscommunication, and being ghosted. All of that instead of actual consultations and finding us a new role within the company before the redundancy process was finished. Finally, the internal systems and sites are god-awful, it's incredibly difficult to find and do anything. It's pretty shocking for a company that's apparently so strong in the IT sector...