YOUR JOB IS NOT SAFE !!! - Social Media Content Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Feb 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Huge company , looks great on your resume , they give you a card with $20 every week for free food out of the vending machines

Cons

Management has no control over anything what-so-ever . They have hired everyone there around the same time because the project is brand new , so all the upper management have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when it comes to policy , theyre not required to view content yet they will look down upon anyone who doesnt meet their OUTRAGEOUS metrics . Because the client is a HUGE company , they kiss butt at every turn to make sure that they dont lose the contract , which i understand but when you come in one day and fire 60 people on a whim with no warning , you obviously dont care about your employees very much . You are expected to maintain a 98% accuracy although they are bringing in auditors with less experience than the people they are auditing and the material they have to reference is almost completely subjective . Not to mention there is no good way of repealing the decisions on audits without taking up 3 weeks of time . The way they have everything set up is a nightmare . All decisions are made by the sister site in phoenix and even if the decisions dont make sense we still have to follow everything they say because the client wants us to be aligned . Its very easy to get chewed up and spit out here . If you have no interest in technology or the internet its not for you , it requires popculture knowlege as well as knowlege on internet trends and memes , even current events . I would say this job is great for someone who doesnt mind kissing some butt and who possibly has a degree that can do some good for the project , maybe communications or even something to do with policy building , HR , SOMETHING . They need some serious help but what theyre doing is very important , and it could be a great job if the client would actually look around and see what is really going on .

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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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