Cognizant reviews

Discrimination Long hours No promotions If you're not Indian, you do not count Another round of benchings in the Englewood office this month has left most teams with little to no onshore presence. The current round was mostly American workers if not all. Mostly men in their 40s and 50s, black women, and no Indian workers. Teams are being dismantled and those that are Indian were transferred to another team, those that are not Indian were benched with no severance. This is just a few weeks after promotions were announced. These promotions were 97% in India. Senior Management (Director level and above) have also been affected, surprisingly all American workers. These people have been replaced by Offshore or Visa workers from India. Moral has hit rock bottom. Those that are left have been told you must now work harder and longer to make up for the onshore losses. Pay Raises for most have been delayed and may not happen this year. Some people have not received a raise in 2 years and in some cases, pay was cut. Most people I have spoken to are now looking for new opportunities outside of the company as the writing is on the wall. If they survive until year-end, it will be surprising. The discrimination Sr Management employs is blatant and out in the open. They have little to no respect for anyone, not from India. The class system is alive and well at Cognizant. It is starting to borderline on illegal in some cases. Complain to HR and you will be benched as two people I personally know have been after going to HR. This last round of benching was delayed by the legal department due to the concerns of ageism as well as minorities on the the list. Sr. Management won out and proceeded anyway.

Don't expect a raise or a fair evaluation. Even if you did a fantastic job, if others did too then they 'rate on normalization or the curve' and only so many are permitted to get an excellent review. This is very harmful as two years in a row my supervisor rated me at an EA rating but I got bumped each time to a EM rating and then do not receive my full bonus. This is extremely out of date in rewarding associates for their hard work. We have lost so many in our workplace because of this reason. They went elsewhere after many years and seeing no reward.