Social Media Content Analyst - Social Media Content Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

3.0
Feb 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, great company culture.

Cons

Quite possibly the worst training I have ever head the displeasure of experiencing. They promise you the world and patronize you, only to underdeliver with poor training practices, and sufficient training to begin with. The trainers (minus one wonderful gentleman who, our class unfortunately did not get as a trainer, but did get to receive a lesson or two from), clearly do not know enough of the job to be teaching it. Interestingly enough, two of them are washouts from the training department of another company I used to work at several years ago, and it looks like they haven't improved much either. Management, at least as far as the training department is concerned, is bizarrely incompetent. An absolute joke. Even mentors and leads already on the floor admitted that currently implemented training standards were unfair, and unrealistic expectations, which is true, as after doing some shadowing, the general work on a day to day basis is easy as pie. I wont even get into inconsistencies, flip-flopping of company policy, contradicting information received from trainer to trainer, and the general dependency of your job on the opinion of people who have never even underwent the the strenuous training and requirements they now require from new hires.

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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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