Hard working people, deceiving leadership - Associate Project Manager Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

There are some very hard working people willing to go to whatever length is necessary to ensure team success

Cons

Upper leadership is deceiving (not all, there are some good people here including the chief executive however nothing is done to eliminate the poor management), especially to get you in the door, and once in be aware that higher promotions are much more politically based than other companies. Value of employees is judged by higher management using metrics that often times the employees have no ability to influence over and don't even consult the employee's supervisor (example, if you don't write the contract or have any say in it how can you be responsible for it not having good enough margins or utilization?)

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Pros

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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