RUN - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are half way decent You get to train your offshore replacements before getting benched.

Cons

Everything. Morale is unbareably low since Cognizant take over. They have no idea how to run a product company and clients are dropping left and right due to a HUGE decline in quality of service. You can't just hire 10,000 Indians to throw at a project with no training. Anyone left on shore spends their time fixing whatever off-shore broke the day before. Not to mention an unrealistic work load due to massive layoffs.

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