Cognizant reviews

Hilariously a company who advises on employee experience has shocking employee experience. High turnover. No salary review for 24 months. No bonus. Seriously low salaries with low rewards. Lot's of complex employee performance reviews and then only 5% of the company get a salary review. Awful onboarding, you know its bad when the entire HR team leave. Zero recognition for employees who've worked a long service. Senior employees on less than juniors. If you do manage to get a pay rise/promotion you'll wait a year and half. Resulting in imposter syndrome when you finally do leave the company - when you get out take some time off to detox from the awful culture so you're not scarred at your new job. Leadership obsessed with hierarchy and faffing around with company structure. Axed summer and Christmas party. No budget for anything. You'll be paying for your own expenses with no hopes of getting them approved.

If you apply to their Business Consultancy arm - be under no illusion, they are anything but. You will be expected to go for interviews for roles at the clients (often against contractors - because that's pretty much what you'll be doing). Once you're in and earning the fees. Don't expect any further support like a consultancy would be. Benefits is disgraceful. They waited until the last minute before taking part in the employer contribution of pensions (and had the cheek to tell us that they have chosen to avail of this right to defer). 20 days holiday (yes, 20). No computer assigned (you have to fight for the 1-2 available PC on the hotdesk if you're on the bench), no mobile phone (expected to put your PERSONAL mobile number on business card - what?!). The majority of the UK office is staffed by offshore staff, and it shows in their reputation as a stack em high, sell em cheap "consultancy". You'll be seen by your clients as an offshore IT staff, rather than a member of a management consultancy they are pretending to be (and obviously failing miserably).