Cognizant Tech Solutions – “best among the worst”

Pros

- large number of projects
- variety of jobs
- decent salary after a certain designation
- in this culture of hire and fire, relatively a little more stability here( not that hire-n-fire does not happen here)

Cons

- constant relocations, even for 2 weeks projects. this limits your job life till you are a bachelor or married with no kids.
- job security but no role security. your designation or title does not matter. if you are manager and the next assignment is data entry, that's what you do to keep you billable.
- management structure designed to incentivise working slow. slow means more hours. more hours meaning more dollar to company.

Advice to Senior Management

- focus on outcome based pricing models, fixed bid or those models that force you to incentivise knowledge and capability building. this will shift the focus towards quality and you will see quality people rise to occasion.
- the smart people in the organization have understood that you are interested in harvesting their experience and then replacing them with freshers. just having KM tool does not mean that smart people will contribute to it. only when senior management demonstrates that they are following a sound business strategy that focusses on rewarding excellence that associates will be eager to contribute to it.