Cognizant reviews

Mass layoffs through their 'Bench Policy'. Once you off-board from a client project, you better pray to God that you find another one (and yes, I mean YOU because you are pretty much on your own finding one) because they only give you 35 days not being on a project and they give you the boot. This isn't considered a 'Layoff' where the news is concerned so it's a backdoor way for them to not have to tell the world/investors that they layed off a WAY bigger percentage of their workforce than they want to admit. I, thankfully have been on a client project consistently but how they have gotten rid of incredibly talented and valuable people based on this policy is a complete joke. I have zero respect for the leadership and I can't wait for the day that I find a better opportunity elsewhere. Another thing, they rate employees on a 1-5 scale at the end of the year and that is supposed to reflect in your raise, well, last year even people rated at a 4 & 5 (the highest) got the same size raise as lower-rated employees. So all of us who broke our backs for this company were basically told that we were worth the same amount as someone who did the bare minimum or even less. Total insult!

-If you do not flirt with the OffShore Managers, you will NOT get a high score on your review -If you do not suck up to the OffShore Manager, you will NOT get a high score on your review. -If you do not accept what they tell you and do what they say, you will NOT get a high score on your review. -They expect you to work OT, without the OT pay -They expect the OnShore Team to cover the OffShore teams mistakes, but blame all mistakes on the OnShore Team -Upper Management was All men reporting to a woman, but they kept her out of the loop OR she just did not care. -The OffShore team was lazy -They hired people to fill the position without qualifications needed -If the OffShore team made a mistake the upper managers would pull them into a meeting for 2hours to go over every step and why they made the mistake - WASTE OF TIME -The OffShore MGRs would take all the positive feedbacks from client and share with the OffShore team when it was ALL the OnShore teams doing. -The company only gives you bonus' if they feel like -If do not start in the deparment during the time frame they see fit, they will not offer the bonus that year -Raises are scarce -Help is no where to be found from you management team or HR -HR Is useless -The 'bench' is a waste of time because you are placed in a category that has nothing to do with your skills and you cannot move up only down -The company is a joke, I do not know how they have high ratings -They say they care about their people, but there is no evidence OnShore.