Unrealistic Expectations - Consultant Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good opportunity to travel, but the best gigs get snatched up by senior consultants - Great people to work with, best in the business - Ability to lead at any level, clients look up to you - New office location in Denver is great, and good efforts to maintain employee health - Self Starters will succeed here

Cons

- Benefits package leaves much to be desired, health insurance is expensive for a Health Care IT company - Salaries are exempt from overtime, expect to work upwards of 75-90 hour weeks when traveling to client locations. Overtime benefits the company through billable hours, but not you. - Unrealistic client expectations, I have a life and refuse to be under house arrest 24/7 - Unlimited PTO policy actually means you rarely will take PTO. It's scrutinized, tracked, and you're discouraged from taking more than 10 days/year. I wasn't able to take PTO at all due to unrealistic client expectations. - Lack of TriZetto management involvement in technical teams executing client contracts. Direct reports are aware of what's going on, but have ZERO power to alter or change anything. Upper management is weak, and completely segregated and "hands off" on the work employees are doing. - There is no synergy here, NONE. - Having Consultants manage ourselves is great, but in order to do so effectively, we need actual management authority, senior advisory consultants and technical directors who are still billable consultants, yet have direct reports, need to be given time to manage their employees' careers. I never received feedback from anyone at TZ regarding my work during my time there. - It's all about billable hours, as long as you are billable to a client project, submit your timesheets accurately weekly, you'll never hear from management, unless you raise a stink, or quit. - The bonus plan is such a mess of mad statistics. Assume you will receive no bonus and negotiate on base salary alone.

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