Worst company I’ve ever worked for - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
17 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to work from home, decent health benefits, some interesting projects and good potential career growth but only if you’re first starting out No other pros to list.

Cons

I was treated like absolute garbage while working at Cognizant. I was berated regularly by the VP in my department who was an extremely demeaning person and nobody seemed to care that I was regularly being treated this way. No work life balance and a horrible toxic culture. Worst company I’ve ever worked for.

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Pros

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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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