If you like being treated like a second-hand disposable good, just go ahead, work in the Bucharest office - Systems Engineer Cognizant Employee Review

- Credential management for access inside the company or towards customer's data center is awful : shared accounts, user and passwords flying around over slack channels with tens of employees in it. Considering the operated product (AEM) with customer sensitive data, a sound customer will terminate the contract with them yesterday. - no training, induction or context, tasks are dumped over your head, often with past due date deadlines - holacracy is used by management to throw the responsibility on employees' shoulders. Real decision is only taken by "seniors", often called so due to the "I was here first" factor, not the field expertise or anything else. - there is a huge difference from the emphasized values and the real applied ones. Sure, they are "open to feedback" you can say whatever you want, they are listening. The acting, doesn't exist though, if you say the same things over several months of no change, it is your problem, you complain too much. - The bonus.ly is used as a means of "tipping" the colleagues that made favors to you ... This reveals Netcentric's motivational bias : rewards and punishment for obedience. When this does not work, then some manipulation and attempt to make the employee feel guilty. - Discrimination is not allowed, unless you are "senior", and can bully people for not being religious and such ... No one acts on the bullying, even after repeated complaints, furthermore, some of the management does bullying too. - Most people leaving are saying very often the same thing : "I'm tired of doing Senior work and being paid/treated as a Junior". - The ideal Netcentric employee would be having a sycophantic eagerness to please the ones above (yeah, they do exist, in their "flat" hierarchy) , a little bit of a liar, yesmen eventually work 24/7 and ask for more work. - The criteria set for career growth isn't met for 80% of the higher grades :). Feels more like a way to block advance of the newer employees which are better prepared than the higher grades.