Very dysfunctional company with middle & upper management only focused on empire building & not on empls or customers - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Feb 20, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Those doing the real work were knowledgeable and caring.

Cons

No real organization, planning and team building. Lots of lip service about being employee and customer focused but talk isn't backed up. When management doesn't get the results they want, they're quick to stab people in the back by putting the blame on individual contributors even though management didn't develop plans for a successful project. So this is a hostile environment.

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