Treat employees and clients like crap - Senior Software Engineer Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
9 June 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pros are the people and companies you work with and working with the product.

Cons

management is largly Indian with their Indian culture - they care not about employees or clients. They are pushy and demanding and expect you to have no life outside of work. I worked there for 4 years as a full time perm developer in Core and was laid off with severance when new management. Then again as a contractor for SI for 6 months and no warning when terminated. Same story. Former founder left the company back when things were no longer in his control and since then this company has gone the way of greed.

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Cons

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Pros

Cognizant can be a great place to work at. You have to be self-motivated and driven. You won't often be given a script on how to do your job well. But if you are willing to search for new opportunities, you will find success.

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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