Incompetent at every level - Senior Product Manager Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- A semi-good learning and training academy

Cons

Management is full people who have been promoted to their level of incompetency. The culture is absolutely toxic. Management raising voices and talking down to others during meetings, rampant nepotism, zero care for any employees other than checking diversity and inclusion checkboxes. The majority of the workforce is in India and the company only cares about low quality, cheap labor. Professionalism is non-existent for the most part. They also have a stack ranked merit system for annual reviews, which is absolute cancer and proves they don't care about attracting and retaining good talent. I've watched Cognizant acquire companies, promise opportunity, then dismantle them and put everyone out of a job. With 300k employees, you are just a single spend line in a budget sheet. Nothing more, nothing les. Find somewhere else, literally anywhere else to work.

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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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