Don't do the Graduate Scheme! - Graduate Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Oct 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

If projects are available you can get experience with reputable clients. However, you have very little say on the projects you get onto

Cons

Extremely poor management of grads. Management bring in more graduates at a time when graduates have been on bench for a year! Lack of communication between length of 'graduate scheme'. Very little projects on offer, and we wonder why the pay for current graduates coming is lower than 1.5 years ago! Place you wherever there's a project without taking in the needs/aspirations of employees.

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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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