Patient is the virtue - Anonymous employee Cognizant Employee Review

2.0
Jan 12, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Wide variety of domains - Environment conducive to innovate - Flexible work culture (but ofcourse depends on which gem of a manager you are under) - Good benefits to employees (like competitions, extra curricular activities etc) - Willingness by the top management to make the necessary changes (but like politics hardly trickles down to low level employees) - Good onsite opportunities

Cons

- Lots of politics inside teams - Incapable middle level managers - Useless performance appraisal process. You get "by default" promotions if you had stayed in the designation for more than a certain period regardless of performances. However, if you do perform well, you still stay in the same position because of brilliant normalization process

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