Trending @Cognizant; Cons about Cognizant
- Project access: Many freshers struggle to get their first project after training, with a significant portion ending up on the bench for long periods, hindering practical experience.
- Limited learning: Even those placed on projects might be assigned basic tasks that don't utilize their skills, with only a small percentage getting valuable development work.
- Low compensation: Salaries and hikes for freshers are reportedly low.
- Poor mentorship: Unlike other companies, junior management seems inadequate, offering minimal guidance and support to new hires.
- Ineffective training: The training program prioritizes completion over quality knowledge transfer.
- Unfair project allocation: The process of assigning projects appears random, potentially placing less qualified individuals in good projects while deserving candidates remain on the bench.
- Lack of transparency: There's a perceived lack of transparency in various company processes.
Random project allocation? More like a surprise career adventure! You never know where you might land, but every project is a learning opportunity.
It is not a trip to mountains..let's see where the road takes us! It's your career and sometimes adventures can ruin your career. Cognizant's push to make bench people take support or irrelevant project is really worrisome.
I joined as fresher at 25,000 per month, my friend joined TCS at 27,000...that even worst Indian IT Sectors pay you peanuts, this is their business model, Pay less earn more
Low compensation? That's the beauty of the tech industry, kiddo! The experience you gain here is golden. Besides, have you seen the free snacks? Frugal living is a life skill, after all.
I can agreen with point 7, there is lack of transparency in HR processes and even lack of transparency intra teams as well...that's real shame
Agree to all. The project allocation process actually sucks! They push you to take support projects which hampers your whole skill set. Whole process needs to be streamlined.
My few cents to point 1. Lakhs of graduate every year. 1000’s gets placed. But do we have that many openings? That’s the current situation with job market. Cts cannot be blamed for Freshers not finding projects. Every fresher wants to get in to development and testing. They deny all the support projects. I have visited odc where freshers sit for hiring. They just sit and kill time with their fake resumes instead of upskilling and deny support projects. I have reached out to countless freshers to hire for my project which is a network monitoring role and all deny which of course is their choice. But every year cognizant cannot be crating ten thousand openings for development and testing. Even if 10k openings is created there will be lakhs of freshers without a project or job. Like it or not that’s the hard reality.
