Overworked, Underpaid, Thankless Company - Senior Consultant II Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
29 May 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Intially the opportunity to serve in what is on the job description is there. The customers are okay to work with and truly have bought into the marketing hype.

Cons

Customers anxiously waiting and hoping for delivery since they are trapped in iron clad contracts that are changed with work orders daily. Code that never works as requested or required with elongated re-delivery dates. No response at escalation points leaving you hanging. Silo's for every division and department. There is a huge lack of leadership but somehow you are left to understand the invisible chain of command making it impossible to be productive. Extremely long hours with mandated weekend work due to poor strategic management and training be prepared to only be reactionary. A real thankless environment. The environment is toxic at this time a minimum of two people are leaving daily. This is not an A level Team. Anyone with options left is leaving. I will resign next week. This is not a healthy or productive environment.

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Pros

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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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