Great brand. Well known for its application development portfolio. Pathetic Infrastructure Outsourcing competency - Manager Business Development Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great brand in the market Well perceived in global markets Reasonable pay Good references in application development Good global opportunities

Cons

- Horizontal practices are treated sub par compared to the verticals - Infrastructure services practice is made up of people with no clue of running such a technology domain, all they have are operations folks who believe anything can be efficiently run through operational practices with little or no domain knowledge - Not a good place for folks keen on improving abilities in the Infrastructure service space, you will just land up unlearning a lot of things without gaining much in return

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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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