Deception at its best - Help Desk Technician Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jun 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CTS’s EAP offered free access to the mobile app, Ginger, for personal behavioral health coaching.

Cons

I was hired with the title of Senior Systems Engineer, but I was a Help Desk Technician in a call center environment, at best. Bait and switch tactic? On my team, I saw various associates on their personal phone all day, sleeping at their desk, calling out “sick” on Mondays with regularity (and still got paid for regular hours), intentionally working slowly, aggressive tones in communication, and so much more. We were severely underpaid and understaffed at times. If you breathed, you were hired. You could do no wrong to get fired. We were told by team leads that they would address problematic associates, but those problematic behaviors persisted. They would move these people to different shifts or teams to avoid firing them. We knew that they needed bodies to provide adequate phone coverage, and Cognizant hired only the minimal amount of associates needed for this purpose.

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Pros

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Cons

Limited pay growth and slow promotions

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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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