All the Joys of the Job Hunt, None of the Benefits - Senior Associate Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Absolutely none, they provide zero support and zero contact throughout your time at the company. The only pros come from if you get placed on a project that is reasonable.

Cons

When you are on a project, you might as well not even work at Cognizant for all the guidance they give you. Everything is bogged down in hundreds (I do mean hundreds) of Cognizant specific apps and terminology that somehow they expect you to know and retain, including VERY IMPORTANT pieces of information that gets lost in the sludge. When you're off a project, you are "benched", where you have 35 days to find a new project before they terminate you. Except, they never have a human being tell you this, they just send it in a very benign email that gets lost in the HUNDREDS of emails they send you every day. One would think that with information as important as that, they would reach out to you and make sure that you are aware of that EXTREMELY IMPORTANT fact, but that would require a level of reason and humanity that I fear is just not present at Cognizant.

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Pros

Variety of technology stack and project and lot of learning options.

Cons

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3.0
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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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