Great product portfolio potential; terrible management without sincere consideration for employees - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company has grown by acquiring great sets of product portfolio for the market. If the company was managed properly with long term vision in mind, could be awesome.

Cons

Frequent changes in management over the last 5 years-sometime multiple organization within a year. The company operation direction changes accordingly, which exhausts 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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