Ridicules management and chaos in PT team - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The colleagues with who we started are amazing and for sure they were worth to stay. Higher salary compared to the market. Flexible working time.

Cons

-New management is missing experience -PT TL is mocking and insulting on the floor (no experience at all) -PT TL has also no process knowledge -no opportunities to grow within the company - also not after 18 months -no bonus or incentives monthly or quarterly (yearly bonus is a joke) -no site management at all -no HR visible (1 person in Krakow, the rest in Gdansk) -low level recruitment (from agent till management) -Company is not interested to keep the good performers (a bunch is leaving because of the current situation) -Portuguese TL has lack in his own language -Travel cost which were promised is not kept -after management change, no structure at all on site -no future plans sharing -feedback is a "no go" as we are never receiving any -Salary negotiation is not possible (even after 18 months)

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