Bittersweet - Programme Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

4.0
Mar 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Focus on sales and customer relationship encorages employees to go the extra mile and try to understand the problems faced by the clients. Medical and other benefits are nice, especially compared to most of the other outsourcing companies focusing on India

Cons

Salaries are pretty low, and financial incentives are not high enough for exemplary performance. Financial juggling to inflate revenue and profit margins. There is a risk of being slotted into one industry domain, and freedom to move between domains is pretty low. Might struggle to retain associates when the markets go up again.

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Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

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3.0
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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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