CSR - Customer Service Representative Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
21 Apr 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Learning a new client. I still have a job. The supervisors, at least some of them, are amazing to work for, others have poor attitudes, forgetting where they came from. At least some managers are nice.

Cons

No transparency. With more acquisitions and the change of hands with other clients employees don't feel confident with the company or their positions. Not offered other opportunities but told you were being transferred without discussing other options. Isn't making employees feel valued instead making them feel replaceable. Extremely low morale within the department. Training based on the amount of knowledge needed is substandard. Quality is not consistent but varies by coach making it difficult to reach your own goals. Intermittent recognition of employee accomplishments based on the supervisor. Absolutely HORRIBLE floor design based on creating maximum occupancy instead of quality customer service; sitting so close to one another allows the caller to hear the rep next to you speaking to their caller creating awkward interactions as you explain you personally were not speaking. The painful realization that upper management above floor level managers really don't know or care anything about you in any capacity besides being a body in a chair. Floor level managers open door policy non-exstitant after initial greeting And few supervisors that actually adhere to the open door aspect. Compensation is well below national average for amount of work performed and quality requirements are difficult to maintain based on different views by QA.

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1.0
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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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