What you should know - Poor Management Experience - Senior Project Manager Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Apr 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The worker bees, team members were great. PTO if you get to use it.

Cons

Bought by Cognizant (an off-shore company)... Bringing in off-shore workers. Management mostly above director level and the Politics in Consulting Services. Listen to the people that have the knowledge from outside of TriZetto on how to implement change. They bring people in for improvement and don't use the advice they seek and truly need. Or when they do use the advice and the credit goes to someone undeserving that didn't even work on that project, fix or issue. Many of the senior managers have been with TriZetto for years. They do not know how to implement change in a large corporation; therefore the solution/answer is... Reorg every 6 months to hide the things that never get fixed. Advice, If you're not in the inner circle, conform. There is no true open door policy. Managers that fail in very large projects of programs get promoted or shuffled into a newly created role. Want specifics, promoting people into jobs they have zero experience or are not qualified for... For instance hypothetically: Let's promote someone with no Project Management experience to run a Project Management team. Makes sense, right? Then not listen to members of team that have been in the weeds and know what the true issues are. Stop covering it up and throwing people on your steams under the bus. No direction/support from direct managers (VP level). The culture & values would be great if they truly followed them and stopped getting rid of the people that actually implemented them. No TRUST... Nope.

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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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