A good organization for experiencing all-round IT exposure - Senior Associate - Projects Cognizant Employee Review

5.0
May 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Great support structure within project teams to help you get up to speed. - Diversity of opportunities available at offshore or onshore. - Onshore assignments do not carry the stress of worrying about visa eligibility. - Very good Green Card processing services for onshore employees

Cons

- Your experiences are determined by your individual project team. Some are great and some not so much. Basically, that is uncontrollable and 'Your Mileage May Vary' - There seems to be an almost fanatical association of performance reviews and promotions to pay grade. As in the only way to revise your pay is if you are promoted or hired as a lateral entrant, which is demotivating for long term employees.

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Pros

Variety of technology stack and project and lot of learning options.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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