Cognizant reviews

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.

Positions are being outsourced to India. At least 1/3 of the staff works in India. The company, Cognizant who now owns Trizetto has a strong presence in India and could move more U.S. jobs over there to save $$.