Awful experience - Team Manager Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Jan 27, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If abuse is your kink, you might like it here.

Cons

No respect for employee contributions, abysmal salary increases (Cognizant generated billions in revenue, but it wasnt as many billions as they should have, so company wide salary increases were 1% for 2024. Constant threat of layoffs, and secrecy regarding these. They do not want to risk losing worker enthusiasm before they have extracted every drop of productivity from you. You are just a number, and the rules do not apply to everyone across the company. What is appropriate/expected for one project is opposite what is appropriate/expected in another. Moving projects is also a political game. If you don't know the right people, do not expect to be reassigned from the bench. More likely, you will be retained there for 5 weeks with little to no project interviews, then laid off for failure to contribute to any project.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Business outlook

Pros

Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

The way the bench status is structured

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2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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