Growing Company with Opportunity for Right Profile - Senior Manager Cognizant Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This is a fast moving company with a lot of potential. They show it in their performance numbers, and in the corporate DNA. If you like a challenge and a place where change is the norm (knowing that change means opportunity to do very cool stuff), Cognizant is for you. If you like stability and consistency, look elsewhere.

Cons

While recognition is great, upward mobility in the higher management levels can often be limited. Also, large portions of the company struggle with the typical "Indian Offshoring" identity crisis. The large contingent of Indians leads to group think that this "Born and Bred" American company is Indian - and it isn't. Meanwhile, leadership is trying to push the corporate culture to be much more international and globally balanced. The conflicts that arise from this are not unexpected and can lead to a lot of not so fun confrontations.

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

A potential inroad into large client companies (Leave Cognizant ASAP) You aren't unemployed.

Cons

It's a body shop. Clients will view you accordingly. Contractors cannot be trusted with most tasks. You must be siloed (No room for growth) so you don't break anything. Your actual job is to fulfill gaps in the client's grunt work even if out of scope. If you don't, the hammer falls from client and Cognizant. Wages well below industry standards. 1% annual raises only exist because legally they must exist. Takes full advantage of H-1B slave system, where employees' families and homes will be thrown into a furnace if you aren't keeping Cognizant happy no matter what. Employees are complacent in their slavery. Management is just happy to get their extra crumbs and will reinforce the bad culture. C-suite is opaque. If you are familiar with India's caste system you will understand how "lessers" are treated. This also happens in a literal sense, you aren't totally safe just because you are the favored skin tone. Takes full advantage of modern white collar culture. "Your racist actions aren't actually racist if you aren't Caucasian." Expect the uphill battle to be even more steep if you're not Southeast Asian. You will hunt for your own work most of the time. Cognizant is not helpful in any regard. They exist to skim off the top and nothing else.

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