Awful salary and managers - Team Leader Cognizant Employee Review

1.0
5 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Workload is small for most people thanks to management being absolutely terrible at allocating resources. Can also backfire if you are one of the few that end up with all the workload. Some team leads actually care about people when they are not completely depressed by their environment.

Cons

Extremely low pay. Constant emails about the company values which are not at all enforced by managers, even escalations to high executives are buried and ignored. Team managers and project managers mostly happened to be there at the right place at the right time to get the role. They have absolutely no leadership /organizational skills whatsoever and get extremely offended the minute someone tries to give them feedback as it would force them to face their mistakes. They are terrified of putting anything in writing because deep down they are aware of their lack of skills and don't want any written proof of their actions. The cherry on top is that not only they are incredibly incompetent but also have no compassion for entry level employee, who they think should be micromanaged at all times and are always spoken to in a very demanding manner.

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5.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Good projects, challenging work, lots to learn

Cons

The way the bench status is structured

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2.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a much needed check in a time of need

Cons

Management seemed uneducated. I dnt know about cognizant as a whole but their eligibility department needs help. They focus on the things that do no matter. They were at risk of losing this contract, so now it’s whatever they client says, they do…no push back including making us do disability cases, that we had no previous knowledge of. In the beginning I was getting OT like crazy. Then they stopped it talking about it wasn’t in there budget, and at times when we needed someone to work/stay late. They are not consistent and the other employees there, are looking for other positions, too. Not to mention, myself and another employee were the only ones there for the longest. It’s a mess.

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