Good work culture....Less salary....Biased promotions.....Pathetic appraisal policies... - Associate Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Apr 18, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good working atmosphere 2. Admin services (But nowadays it is getting worse) 3. Career path switch 4. Good compenstaion for laterals ( ONLY laterals)

Cons

1. Pathetic promotion guidelines. They change guidelines every cycle/associate 2. Biased managers 3. Laterals will get more salary ( I know it happens everywhere..but people who work for CTS more than 5 yrs will get less paid than a lateral employee who has only 3 yrs exp) 4. When you submit resignation, you will get onsite . ( But who beg for onsite for 3yrs will not be given an oppurtunity) 5. Onsite openings are not transparent. ( They have a portal for that..but most of the openings are not listed there...)

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Cons

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Pros

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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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