Agent Support Representative - Agenc Service Representative Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
22 Sept 2018
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Pros

Truly cannot thing of a ONE!

Cons

India culture with digital based processing. Attempting to mandate India culture to America on a fast track, high stress, high production volume, low pay work environment, absolutely a terrible mix. Training was horrible, trainer was inadequate, unprofessional and actually came from a telemarketing background. Management was unprofessional in their culture, emails sent out to team were abusive and bullying. No personal time, no processing time and no production time to allow problem solving for clients and customers. How do Indian companies that are IT maintain , obtain and keep outsourced client companies when they cannot adequately perform and fulfill the work. Turnover for 2018 is at 74%. Most employees do not smile, are not engaged and are in a "semi-silent" state for fear of complete uncomfortability with their work environment. Cubicles are tiny, allow no freedom, short cube walls, allow no privacy, terrible work environment. Cognizant should be full time temp staffing agency, because in essence, that is what they are, and how they function, bill employers and pay employees. I would steer clear of this place, at all costs. From a production standpoint, company uses digital learning library called Live Publish, it is simply a thousand poorly organized hyperlinks, all jumbled up and lumped in cohesively together. Company mandates calls done to perfection in 5 to 7 minutes, but your typical employee, digitally trained or not, cannot even access and find policies and processes and workflow specifics to utilize that info to meet call metrics. In other words with the ISR or CSR or ASR positions which involve phone work at Cognizant, all are clearly lose/lose worker scenarios. Also, company at interview time, absolutely will not disclose desk metrics you are judged on, up front, because they know if they did, the prospective applicant, would rightfully and thoughtfully, run for the hills.

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Pros

Good learning opportunities and structured training

Cons

Limited pay growth and slow promotions

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Pros

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

Cons

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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