Horrible company! Do not work here. - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Cognizant

1,0
31 ott 2019
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The best experience I had was the free 3 week vacation

Svantaggi

First of all, when you get hired you are not told where you are working because it’s a consulting company. However, they tell you during your training that you will know before the training ends where you are working. I went through a 3 week training with 30 individuals in which NONE of us were placed by the end of training. After going through multiple interviews with clients for a month I was placed on a project with an internal client. The perk of being a consultant is being able to bill your client, but working internally I did not get that option and the company does not compensate for this. I worked nearly 12 hours a day, having to do all my managers work when he was busy dealing with personal stuff and all of the offshores work that they didn’t feel like doing. My manager never had anything positive to say, I was verbally abused everyday. Also he would take credit for all my work and present it to higher ups as his own. However, when there was negative feedback he would then copy me in the email chain telling the whole department that is was my fault, even times when the work was his own. There is no communication between anyone at this company! After my project date got pushed back multiple times and my manager leaving half way through because his visa got denied, I got an email telling me my project was ended and to not come in anymore. I had 5 weeks to find a new project, apparently, where no one contacted me with projects in my location. After the 5 weeks was up, I received a call from a random women at 7pm telling me that I was fired. This company is a joke. Extremely unprofessional and has no regard for their employees. They hired 80 new college graduates but can’t find me a client to work for. They will continue to hire and fire recently graduated college students , it’s a vicious cycle.

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5,0
2 lug 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good learning opportunities and structured training

Svantaggi

Limited pay growth and slow promotions

1,0
5 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Svantaggi

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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