Really bad experience - No professionalism - Amateurism of TL and managers - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I can't find any, maybe only one - good coffee machine.

Cons

The quality of management is really bad. The managers and leads without qualifications and experience at all. No support, no motivation, no professionalism. If you are more qualified than your Lead or Manager you will have some problems. Action Plans is an easy practice there, you can have some Action Plans without a reason, just because your manager wants to block you and have a reason to stop your contract. No flexible working time. Bad communication No respect

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Cons

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Pros

* They train new grads, so you get a lot of valuable training * Depending on the projects, it has the potential to have a good life balance *Hybrid and Remote opportunity Will recommend to get your foot in the door

Cons

* Pay is not very competitive. Needs improvement * Depending on some client projects, the work-life balance can also be very bad * The culture is horrible, the outlook and appearance of the company is so different than what is on the ground—cutthroat culture, pushing culture. * Sometimes it enables a rude and disrespectful culture * Career growth is very minimal * tend to hire lots of indians, and an indian dominated culture/circle can make a non indian feel left out

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