Cognizant want to retain me
I have already resigned in January and April 10th is my last working day in Cognizant. I have already got a good offer from another company for 166% hike.
Today Cognizant hr and my manager called me to say that, my client is looking forward to retain me in and they asked me how much package I need. I asked them total hike of 200%.
Will they even think of giving it in Cognizant? If they give should i stay or move to other company with less package as it is product based company. What and all restrictions Cognizant may put if I accept this?
You asked good. That’s how people should do. If you think project is good enough to continue for at least 1 yr, then accept 200% hike (if they give), and stay for one year. Post 1 year, again try to search for better job opportunity. If they don’t give 200%, keep moving. Also, don’t come under the trap of “we will do it in next cycle, we will do it after 2-3 months, in next quarter etc etc”, get that in writing and get it right away before revoking resignation. (Though usually they may ask to revoke first, and then wait for a week or so, for revised, you can take judgement calls in such cases)
Thank you for your opinion. I don’t think I will be staying even after 200% hike in the same company, because I know they are going to pressurise so much and obviously they are going to reduce my team members and give their work to me as client only wants to keep everything under budget. Also as you said they won’t give in writing before I revoke my offer and I am 100% sure they will do some Golmaal things in the package which they will provide. So better to move on to other company than agree for 200% is what I think now.
Get offer letter first and then only revoke resignation
@NightFury59 Could you share your teck stack and YOE?
Mine is production support 3.5 yoe in Cognizant
Maintaining operations of client application
So we will be using automation like autosys shell scripting sql plsql
Also we will sometime have deployments in production code but minor code changes only in Java code and azure devops tool for release and deployments.
All the negotiations should happen before you accept the offer at new company.
Nope they came to me about retention after 2 months of my resignation
Manager was asking for me to stay
But they didn’t informed client about my resignation as they were waiting for another employee who have my tech stack skills matched
As didn’t found any they told my client manager and her manager
So they scolded my manager that she should have informed them earlier as i am crucial for this project
So only manager and hr started to ask about this
Please move away
@NightFury59 why don't you tell them to fuckk off man? It's not worth it for a 34% more hike than the actual offer you have in Hand, whatever it is, even if they accept your 200% ask, you should tell them "f*ck off" right on the face.
After all, consider this because the client and this manager are going to force you to work on weekends, giving you work of 2-3 guys as you have been given a 200% hike by them.
Hope this helps you.
FYI. They offered to give me the 120% but they are not matching my expectation which was 200%. As I have 160% offer already which will be more in hand than they give in 120%
