Ultimate Micro Management - Infrastructure Architect Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good insurance, Good Parking, and Nice golf view.

Cons

Ever since new CEO, there were mass of middle management termination and incremental laid off started causing insecure career and much more rampant silo with knowledge sharing. It basically became, Indian culture oriented company with very little tolerance of US culture open door policy. Especially in engineering side with tight iron-fisted micromanagement with pigeon holed, no innovation but do your tasks only style management. No career advancement communication, no promotion opportunity, not even any salary increase, no incremental PTO earning whatsoever. Pretty much dead end career with just do your tasks and keep your mouth shut. If you there are heavy snow so difficult to commute in, too bad. Be at the office and do your tasks anyway. Not even stupid holiday event catered in event. Total cost saving only company with nothing but strive for achieving Billion dollar company goal oriented company.

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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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