Stay Away - Associate Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Aug 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get salary on time. They will pay your relocation taxes.

Cons

1. Number 1 abuser of EB1C visa. Org chart is manipulated and you will report to multiple people in a year until their EB1C is approved. 2. No transparency in ratings and promotion. Deserving people won't get it and people who don't know ABCs of project will get it. 3. Only company I ever know who pays 2% hike and bonus to low level people (A, SA), 4 % to M, 6 % to SM and so on. In simple words they don't care for most of the people from whom they make money. 4. They have changed the insurance policy recently where in you are paying the same premium and insurance won't pay a single penny until you meet deductible of 6K 5. People with 12+ year of experience in company are not able to get promotion. But person joining with 5 year experience is joining as SA 6. Most of M, SM, AD, D can't speak or write single sentence correctly.

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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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