Toxic, Bureaucratic, and Built on Exploitation - Avoid - Solution Architect Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Mar 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Paychecks clear. - If you like pointless bureaucracy, you’ll love it here. - You’ll gain a deep appreciation for how bad corporate IT can be.

Cons

- Toxic, fear-based management. Constant threats to "skill up or else." - Hiring bias is real. U.S. workers are deprioritized for visa hires. - Zero career growth. Promotions are about politics, not talent. - IT policies actively prevent productivity. You can’t install basic tools. - If you quit, you become a ghost. My manager didn’t even tell my team I left. - Endless, pointless argumentation. Instead of solving problems, expect endless debates over trivial nonsense.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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