Deception at its best - Help Desk Technician Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
4 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

CTS’s EAP offered free access to the mobile app, Ginger, for personal behavioral health coaching.

Cons

I was hired with the title of Senior Systems Engineer, but I was a Help Desk Technician in a call center environment, at best. Bait and switch tactic? On my team, I saw various associates on their personal phone all day, sleeping at their desk, calling out “sick” on Mondays with regularity (and still got paid for regular hours), intentionally working slowly, aggressive tones in communication, and so much more. We were severely underpaid and understaffed at times. If you breathed, you were hired. You could do no wrong to get fired. We were told by team leads that they would address problematic associates, but those problematic behaviors persisted. They would move these people to different shifts or teams to avoid firing them. We knew that they needed bodies to provide adequate phone coverage, and Cognizant hired only the minimal amount of associates needed for this purpose.

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Pros

Good learning opportunities and structured training

Cons

Limited pay growth and slow promotions

3.0
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Pros

Cognizant can be a great place to work at. You have to be self-motivated and driven. You won't often be given a script on how to do your job well. But if you are willing to search for new opportunities, you will find success.

Cons

Just like many other tech companies, layoffs are happening all the time. This often brings many projects to a complete halt. Management never communicates when someone is laid off. And when they are laid off, they often never back fill positions, leaving existing team members working the equivalent of three jobs at once. Most teams there are skeleton crews, ensuring that they cannot reach their full potential.

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