Soulless - Senior Consultant Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jun 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I was part of Magenic who was acquired by CSV in 2021. Note that there is no positive mentioned here.

Cons

Everything I have to say will be relative to Magenic, but Magenic was a great place to work, with lots of cool and smart and down to earth people. All of the managers told us to sit tight, that things wouldn't change- which of course they were given direct orders to spread that messaging, because part (all) of being acquired when you are in consulting, is that you're really acquiring a labor force. We don't produce anything- consultants themselves are the product. Hindsight is 20/20, but of course came the day that the acquisition was fully sealed, and that very morning the bloodletting happened- all of the C-suite and a number of well-liked managers were immediately severed. Morale dropped. People fled. I was one of them. Gossip on the street says that CSV high leadership themselves were in hot water for one reason or another. Maybe they were too busy dealing with that, but it never really felt like we were part of any organization once Magenic was washed away. A strange limbo. So, not the worst of situations, but also life is too short to just continue to sit at an organization that feels like an absentee parent.

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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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