Stay Away if You Value Your Health & Sanity - Recensione dipendente - Systems Administrator presso Cognizant

2,0
4 feb 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

* For some reason there are still a few of the old guard from their acquisitions that are decent people to work with. Ie.. the leaders make it bad, not the employees. * They have fairly good incident management practices. * They usually pay at or (very slightly) above industry standard salaries. * "Unlimited time off" means that if you have a decent manager you can get pretty flexible with time off. * They have well equipped meeting rooms at most sites. * It's easy to get reimbursed for travel.

Svantaggi

* Known stupid things happen that can't be fixed. * Managers or departments hate each other, and use their roles to conduct political warfare. * Bad mistakes are frequently made, and no one is held accountable. * Almost all effort is on fire-fighting, and little on fire-proofing. * Unhealthy work/life balance is either encouraged or demanded. * Very much a victim of No Bad News syndrome, and Groupthink. * There is lots of waste on capital and little investment in people. * Terrible "open office" trendy office environment that's loud, frenetic, and very very distracting with people constantly interrupting you. * Lots of happy talk group meetings overflowing with platitudes but with fewer facts than you can even find on media sites about the company. * They actively push out Americans in favor of bringing in H-1B visa holders to undercut and push out employees from companies they acquire. The company has an "American Headquarters" and it's a farce, the real leadership and power is overseas. Registering your company in Delaware does not mean "Made in the USA".

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

Vantaggi

Variety of technology stack and project and lot of learning options.

Svantaggi

Limited remort working oppertunity around.

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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