Don't work for Strategy and Transformation Practice! - Business Analyst Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Mar 28, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

> Modern office with daily spread of breakfast items, fruit and Nespresso machines > Few decent colleagues and interesting internal work

Cons

The biggest con working for Cognizant is the concentration of Indian men at the very top levels of the organisation. There is blatant racism against women, and non-indians in the form of lessened opportunities. Other cons include directors who try and push off work on junior resources, overspend on their budgets and overall do not know how to manage teams. The performance review process is biased and unfair, not to mention extremely vague. Too much hierarchy, gossip and work politics. Cognizant lost a lot of work in Q4 2016 and Q1 2017 so they are trying to lay off employees to cut their costs, without realising that they are suffering from a damaged reputation and no price can be placed on that. Really a pathetic work culture, where mistakes are blamed on others instead of being learned from.

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