Good company - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

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

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.

Its employment and the benefits are good

This is an Indian company and it's a huge part of their culture. I would not recommend Americans to cognizant. It's just a world of difference in culture and how people are treated. There is so much operational and political problems just to get staffed on a project. They lay people off, tell them they are going to rehire them, and then you will never hear from cognizant ever again. The bench is a huge problem. You could be qualified for so many opportunities and literally only be able to apply to dirt jobs. There were so many promises made by cognizant that were NEVER kept. Extremely poor communication. The left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing