Extremely Poor Management - Senior Consultant I Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
27 Jun 2015
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Pros

It asks for a 20 word minimum but having a hard time doing that. I'd say very little Pros

Cons

I worked in Systems Integrations as contractor. They hire hire contractors frequently and evaluate within first couple months. You do well, they ask to convert you to FT. You do poor they drop you. You turn down FT, they drop you. As a contractor and employee you are not a human, you are a resource. There is no co worker comradery there, management never asks you how you are doing, or makes any effort in showing interest in you as a person. My manager sat 50 ft from me and I saw her on Day 1, one day she came over to tell me Someone thought I was doing a good job (surprised at that effort) and on the last day she saw me in lobby as turning in laptop and didn't say a word. There is a team of 20+ people assigned to one client that could easily be done with 5 people. Wasteful meetings and managers and senior team members that don't know how to delegate work. Clients are underestimated, over billed with wasteful hours and then asked to spend more money due to poor management of resources. Upper management changed some department structure and put a hold on hiring FT. I was in process of being hired FT. 3 weeks talking with HR and then I was terminated. There was no work for 2 weeks so I couldn't be non billable as contractor and released. There is no safety here even as a FT employee. I left on “good terms” and asked to apply again in the near future but I will never return. They lost a good person as I'm highly sought after.

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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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