No work-life balance - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Nov 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The salary is decent, and the benefits are acceptable (for existing employees, anyway). New employees won't receive the same PTO benefits.

Cons

Because of the large offshore component (owned by a company based in India), calls are frequently scheduled for 6 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. It's also an incredibly meeting-heavy culture, with daily check-in meetings on projects with 30 participants, when smaller meetings and/or emails would be a better use of time. There are many days where you take a call at home at 6 a.m., drive to the office, work a 10-hour day, come home, and then have to get back on a call in the late evening. Workload is constantly heavy, making it hard to take time off. Between the workload and the schedule, there's no life balance.

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Cons

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Pros

* They train new grads, so you get a lot of valuable training * Depending on the projects, it has the potential to have a good life balance *Hybrid and Remote opportunity Will recommend to get your foot in the door

Cons

* Pay is not very competitive. Needs improvement * Depending on some client projects, the work-life balance can also be very bad * The culture is horrible, the outlook and appearance of the company is so different than what is on the ground—cutthroat culture, pushing culture. * Sometimes it enables a rude and disrespectful culture * Career growth is very minimal * tend to hire lots of indians, and an indian dominated culture/circle can make a non indian feel left out

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