Cognizant reviews

Everything I have to say will be relative to Magenic, but Magenic was a great place to work, with lots of cool and smart and down to earth people. All of the managers told us to sit tight, that things wouldn't change- which of course they were given direct orders to spread that messaging, because part (all) of being acquired when you are in consulting, is that you're really acquiring a labor force. We don't produce anything- consultants themselves are the product. Hindsight is 20/20, but of course came the day that the acquisition was fully sealed, and that very morning the bloodletting happened- all of the C-suite and a number of well-liked managers were immediately severed. Morale dropped. People fled. I was one of them. Gossip on the street says that CSV high leadership themselves were in hot water for one reason or another. Maybe they were too busy dealing with that, but it never really felt like we were part of any organization once Magenic was washed away. A strange limbo. So, not the worst of situations, but also life is too short to just continue to sit at an organization that feels like an absentee parent.

When you are on a project, you might as well not even work at Cognizant for all the guidance they give you. Everything is bogged down in hundreds (I do mean hundreds) of Cognizant specific apps and terminology that somehow they expect you to know and retain, including VERY IMPORTANT pieces of information that gets lost in the sludge. When you're off a project, you are "benched", where you have 35 days to find a new project before they terminate you. Except, they never have a human being tell you this, they just send it in a very benign email that gets lost in the HUNDREDS of emails they send you every day. One would think that with information as important as that, they would reach out to you and make sure that you are aware of that EXTREMELY IMPORTANT fact, but that would require a level of reason and humanity that I fear is just not present at Cognizant.