best among the worst - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Nov 7, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- large number of projects - variety of jobs - decent salary after a certain designation - in this culture of hire and fire, relatively a little more stability here( not that hire-n-fire does not happen here)

Cons

- constant relocations, even for 2 weeks projects. this limits your job life till you are a bachelor or married with no kids. - job security but no role security. your designation or title does not matter. if you are manager and the next assignment is data entry, that's what you do to keep you billable. - management structure designed to incentivise working slow. slow means more hours. more hours meaning more dollar to company.

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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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