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

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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