You'll be left with a Zone hangover - Employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jun 29, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be an amazing company to work for with outstanding culture (pre cognizant). If you like massive corporations and heavy, long winded processes and no admin rights to your own laptop this is the company for you. Good volunteering services through Cognizant. They do some good work and great projects. The people are wonderful, you might even make friends for life. Moving to a new Cognizant office in Liverpool St which looks nice but will axe what's left of the culture. Seem to want to actually have a more diverse culture are doing something about it.

Cons

Hilariously a company who advises on employee experience has shocking employee experience. High turnover. No salary review for 24 months. No bonus. Seriously low salaries with low rewards. Lot's of complex employee performance reviews and then only 5% of the company get a salary review. Awful onboarding, you know its bad when the entire HR team leave. Zero recognition for employees who've worked a long service. Senior employees on less than juniors. If you do manage to get a pay rise/promotion you'll wait a year and half. Resulting in imposter syndrome when you finally do leave the company - when you get out take some time off to detox from the awful culture so you're not scarred at your new job. Leadership obsessed with hierarchy and faffing around with company structure. Axed summer and Christmas party. No budget for anything. You'll be paying for your own expenses with no hopes of getting them approved.

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Cognizant Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback about working at Zone. We’re glad to read that you enjoyed working with Zone’s great people, clients and on progressive project work. We’re sorry to read the ‘cons’ to working here that you’ve listed. We understand there have been some frustrations with some of our processes whilst we have been integrating with Cognizant’s policies and ways of working; however, are proud to have navigated through Zone’s acquisition to Cognizant and the Covid pandemic over the past 5 years, adapting to remote, and more recently, hybrid working, whilst maintaining a strong and inclusive culture, and retaining many fantastic and dedicated colleagues along the way. Whilst some of our policies and ways of working have changed in the past five years since joining Cognizant, we have strived to keep employees engaged, reward new and existing employees fairly, and provide full transparency around our 24-month promotion cycle. We’ve worked hard with our Employee Experience team to assess our onboarding process, and are working to create a great onboarding experience for new employees. We have also re-introduced our Summer and festive celebrations, which were temporarily halted due to the Covid pandemic. We wish you the best of luck with your new role and thank you for helping us make the best Zone possible, through providing valued feedback.

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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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