Ok as a start - Data Scientist Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Oct 13, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It can offer opportunities to work on interesting projects and to learn, if you're lucky. Work life balance can be good, depending on the specific project or location you're assigned to.

Cons

Little consideration for the person, or his/her professional goals, as the main priority is billability. Many projects are badly organized with difficult communication within the team, sometimes due to cultural differences and somebody's tendency to impose his/her way of working on you. Probably not the best place if your main field is data science. Pay is not good, and they do all they can to keep it low. Appraisal is largely affected by the success of the projects you've participated in, and it is far from being objective.

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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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