Cognizant reviews

No effort towards finding a new position. Pointless overly complex technical interviews by Cognizant staff for new assignments. I had one guy ask me how the keys to a hash map are stored internally. Seriously? This was a Cognizant guy screening me for a position with a new client. The hiring managers act like they are doing you a favor by interviewing you. And their systems for tracking leads are typical of the rest of Cognizant's systems; they are borderline usable. It felt like they were written by a first year comp sci major doing an internship at Compuserve or something. It was actually easier to find a new gig using LinkedIn. The experience was much more efficient and user friendly. More on their internal systems: they are horrible. If I was ever asked to teach a workshop in bad system design all I would have to do is use Cognizant's internal systems as examples. They are so bad it would almost be comical if your livelihood didn't depend on them. The experience got much worse after Ravi was hired as CEO and turned the company into a clone of Infosys. Only consider working here if you are a recent graduate from Bangalore Tech or something

I had worked for Cognizant 1 year before I left the company for obvious reasons (In total 1.5 years as I worked with CPL half year before they took the ownership of the project). They made promises in a really fancy presentation at the Convention Center in Dublin. But that was it. I do not want to imagine how much money they spent in that show (they could have invested that money in their employees instead) to do nothing after. Well nothing, they cut the majority of the benefits that we had with the previous employers CPL/Manpower such as free cantine, flexibility, promotional processes, etc. It is sad cause the job was even fun surrounded of really nice people but they screwed it up. Firstly we gave them a chance but soon it was clear that nothing that they had promised was about to be true. New hires getting less salary for the exact same amount of job, or different depending on what you demand during the interview. The funniest part is that they order you not to talk about your salary with your colleagues, something that is basically impossible. They changed the whole contract in terms of time shift for some teams (working later and later every time), and in terms of productivity setting the targets 10% higher from one day to another. And they also have taken some people, who where mentors, back to basic operation duties, creating a horrible work environment. I wish all my friends working there get a better job soon. They deserve a company which cares more about them and not that much about the numbers. It is a pity but it is true. I imagine Cognizant promising Google a reduced budget to take over the project but I am sure Google is not aware of all the strategies they are implementing to reach that budget.