No clear career paths - Senior Manager Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Dec 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Some good work comes CTS's way sometimes. Working with different clients means you do not get institutionalised and may be able to cope well even if you leave CTS after long years (that's the hope). Good learning opportunities. Good travel opportunities.

Cons

Crying babies and not performers get the milk. There is a lot of demand from employees for writing white papers, innovation, outreach work etc. but they want you to somehow discover the hours for it while working full time at client location. Unnecessary weightage given to Client appreciation mails at times of appraisal and promotion. Quite hierarchical organisation where 'yes sir' is expected. Lot of internal mails from groups that you know nothing about. Most employees I talk to have stopped reading internal mass mails. Reorgs happen almost every year. No clear path to winning in Digital Consulting.

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Cons

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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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