Incompetent at every level - Senior Product Manager Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- A semi-good learning and training academy

Cons

Management is full people who have been promoted to their level of incompetency. The culture is absolutely toxic. Management raising voices and talking down to others during meetings, rampant nepotism, zero care for any employees other than checking diversity and inclusion checkboxes. The majority of the workforce is in India and the company only cares about low quality, cheap labor. Professionalism is non-existent for the most part. They also have a stack ranked merit system for annual reviews, which is absolute cancer and proves they don't care about attracting and retaining good talent. I've watched Cognizant acquire companies, promise opportunity, then dismantle them and put everyone out of a job. With 300k employees, you are just a single spend line in a budget sheet. Nothing more, nothing les. Find somewhere else, literally anywhere else to work.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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