HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Apr 9, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros to working for this company

Cons

-If you do not flirt with the OffShore Managers, you will NOT get a high score on your review -If you do not suck up to the OffShore Manager, you will NOT get a high score on your review. -If you do not accept what they tell you and do what they say, you will NOT get a high score on your review. -They expect you to work OT, without the OT pay -They expect the OnShore Team to cover the OffShore teams mistakes, but blame all mistakes on the OnShore Team -Upper Management was All men reporting to a woman, but they kept her out of the loop OR she just did not care. -The OffShore team was lazy -They hired people to fill the position without qualifications needed -If the OffShore team made a mistake the upper managers would pull them into a meeting for 2hours to go over every step and why they made the mistake - WASTE OF TIME -The OffShore MGRs would take all the positive feedbacks from client and share with the OffShore team when it was ALL the OnShore teams doing. -The company only gives you bonus' if they feel like -If do not start in the deparment during the time frame they see fit, they will not offer the bonus that year -Raises are scarce -Help is no where to be found from you management team or HR -HR Is useless -The 'bench' is a waste of time because you are placed in a category that has nothing to do with your skills and you cannot move up only down -The company is a joke, I do not know how they have high ratings -They say they care about their people, but there is no evidence OnShore.

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Cons

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Cons

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