Cognizant review: fraud & employee harassment by cognizant 40

They are constantly sending me emails every day to apply for their jobs! You would think after the fourth email of not replying each consecutive day they would get the message! Just today they even sent me a "thanks for submitting an application" I never sent! This company has some of the worst business tactics I've seen with its constant harassment with recruitment methods.

All of sudden cognizant forcing employees to use hungerbox mobile app for
ordering food that too not working properly and most of the places internet
issues exist in cafeteria. Not sure its legal to force employees in india like this.

We are a sharing this information as we are group of cognizant past and new consultants and have been working on various projects at client sites in Toronto and are company well-wishers. We do not wish to be named at this time and hence would not reveal the identity at this stage.

This is regarding Manager from the Canada recruitment team - Noel Correia. He has be reaching out to majority of the existing & prospective hire consultants via phone calls, in person meetings at client locations etc. and proposing us to contract with a company called Arisoft - https://arisoftglobal.com/contact-us/ or InfoMaximum - http://infomaxium.com/infomax_wp/contact-us/

He also has another accomplice in this racket called Satya Kumar Babu. Satya initiates the initial discussions with all the new and prospective new joinee consultants and get a slot for Noel to meet with us. Noel Correia further comes and meets us with the solicitation to Join Arisoft or Infomaximum.

Whether we are Citizens, PR holders or Visa holders it is our choice which pays rolling or staffing company we use for our contracts with cognizant. We cannot be getting pressurizing follow-ups via phone calls, meetings at clients sites during the work week on these topics. When we deny the offer he further asks us for a slot to meet after work and is ready to drop us to any part of the city for this in person discussion. Some of us who denied the meetings were threatened that if you do not comply on contracting through above choices our Job offer may be pulled back and we may get lower dollar rate with other vendors.

When these type of solicitations started happening regularly with many of the consultants and when these discussions came forward commonly among the group. We all decided to find the reasons behind these incidences.
Few of us had some contacts locally working at Arisoft and who have used Arisoft for contracts with various consulting companies / end clients in the past. We were shocked to find out that the company owner named Imtiaz Lodhi has been doing this type of underhand dealings with Noel Corriea for last several years. Noel & Imtiaz have even created another company called Info maximum to transact on these type of shady deals. Imtiaz Lodhi has managed to place consultants in various organizations though this route where Noel Corriea has worked in the past. Noel & Satya in return get a fraud and kick back margin of few dollars for every hour rate paid to the consultants for every candidate that joins through Arisoft or Infomaximum as additional income for the whole year.

Infomaximum does not even have a company address and proper whereabouts listed, how can we all give them our payrolling responsibility on which our families depend for survival in Canada. We cannot lose our hard earned money to some illegitimate middlemen and be pressurized on joining a specific company for a benefit of few people. These are highly unethical activities that are taking place on the company premises without anyone talking any action against these corporate thieves.

Cognizant

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupa-moni-58824315
Can you please explain why Rupa and many others harassed freshers and technical specialists and did not give the payment pending dues.
Can you please surrender to the Court of India or the nearby police station?

Could you please share your phone number to us and stop running away? Attached is the proof.
Thangeswari is still getting harassed by Cognizant INdia from 2006 to 2016 who are sending silly letters instead of payment of dues on time.
What is this? Why is that payment was not done on August 2012 and why was she was harassed when went in person by HR of Cognizant? Can you please explain?

Request Cognizant to termed as a fraud company and shut down if they are getting paid for the work done by others and not paying the salary and dues on time.

Screw those CTS guys.. I got an interview call letter from Chennai office (Nithyaa.V HR name) and went to attend the interview in Hyderabad's office, as it is scheduled here based on my request.. Reached there on time, HR took my resume, after an hour HR came back and said there is no such opening here and many people like me were sent back. When we asked they said, may be the consultancy people have given you wrong information, but I received interview call letter from CTS HR...I am going to file an FIR and drag them to court

I joined Cts last year. I put my resignation as the operations was unable to provide me projects and they blamed it on me totally. They also came back with reasons why I should be terminated stating unauthorised absence and been in bench for a while. But I stated my data points that most of the time in bench I was on leaves and most of the time worked for a team without allocations. But the senior management is behind me to exit in 2 days and does not want me to serve the notice period. I'm fighting for justice but not sure of they will issue a clean service certificate.

I am facing same issue. I joined Cognizant one month back. They gave me an opportunity of OEDQ Developer which is not relevant to my skillset. I am a PL/SQL Developer with almost 5 yrs of experience and hence I rejected the opportunity when during client round I came to know that this is the situation.
Now my managers started threatening me that if I do not join the project they will escalate it. I said OK and some days later, i.e., yesterday I actually got a call from HR department asking me to meet.
When I went to meet, the HR sounded so harsh and he said if you cannot take up this opportunity you'll have to face very serious actions which may put your job at stake.
He asked me my final decision about joining the project and I refused. He then offered me two choices to get separated : Either I should put separation from my side or he will initiate a disciplinary action against me. I replied him that he should go with what he wishes to do.
When I left his cabin, he asked his colleague to drop me a mail asking me to report to the project twice, on Friday and then again on Monday. If I fail to report, he said he'll initiate the disciplinary action.
Let me tell you I have already intimated them that I am open for any location, any time (day time), any client. What am I demanding is only the current skillset project as I have spent 5 good years in shaping it.
Please advise if you have something to suggest.

to,
cognizant complaint board
pune, maharastra
sub: termination of illegible candidate offered job by your co on the basis of fake experince certificates
this is for your kind information that the following candidate has been appointed in your company by support of one of employee of yoyr company in human resource by producing fake experience certificates of 5 years however the candidate has no experience
The experience certificates salary slips are subject to your verification that how salary rs 500000/- pa i.e. rs. 45000/- p m paid has been paid if paid by bank than verify by bank statemnets, bank pass book which is not in hand of candidate
name of the candidate suyog jain
fathers name vimal kumar jain
address 45 jawahar chowk jhansi up

employee of cognizant company supporting him manish agarwal, pune
certificate obtained from horizoncore infosoft pvt ltd, maninagar, ahmadabad gujrat

the above salary slips experience certificates has been obtained from the company by unfair means, your company is required to strictly verify the documents and take actions against the defaulters so that the eligible candidate may get the job
this is for your kind information to recruitment board to taks action aginst the wrong persons so that in public interest no one will repeat the same

virendra patel
legal consultant
for pinaki soni
horizoncore infosoft pvt ltd
12 rameshwar park society
ahmadabad gujrat
email; caadvocate.1001@gmail.com

Cognizant h r department pune absorbing illegible candidate with fake experince certificate details throgh support of its employees for further details where to compliant ?
the canddate applying for job has fake experince certificates of 5 years obtained by preparing unfair means false practices from another software company
how to file a complaint aginst the employee and to terminate the job offered ?

My name is Cheryl Ciance. Cavalier Apartments and Cavalier condominiums are severely dangerous. 3 people use Cognizant software 7.0 illegally, with Paramount products. Names Gary Hearsch, Dupont experimental Station, and Jonathan Cabrara//Gonzalaz, family India and, Michael Anderson. Their personalities are mentally disabled. They saturate Cavalier with illegal products and torture people.

I reported this to Premier, but my messages get intercepted. Send the FBI here. They hold keys to all apartments.
Cheryl J. Ciance
18 Capano Drive
Newark, De 19702. I must take a statement. They use my name illegally as well. I have nothing to do with this.

Below you can see comments made by a Senior Manager at Cognizant. Willem Borst.

Willem Borst Ali Malik You should see a professional shrink as you are delusional and following an ungodly way of following god. I feel for you, get some help NOW! Every major religion gives man some kind of self control of their destiny, in your Bizarro world God controls all of us and that makes live not worth living. GET HELP PLEASE!

Willem Borst And if you want to be some idol's property you go ahead, The United States have abolished slavery over 150 years ago. And let your Almighty God strike me down now!

Willem Borst Ali Malik You seem to think that we are all some false god's property, what is intelligent about that. My dog is my property and still has it's own will, do you put yourself lower than my a dog. You have issues when you place yourself lower than my dogs. SEEK SOME HELP!

Willem Borst Ali Malik Not so sure what is educated about your statements of total submission to something people have made up without any proof. Your statements are more abusive as you think that your God is better than mine. Have I got news for you...Maybe it is my god striking down on those people following false idols and worshipping a black stone? (I do not believe this myself really :))

Willem Borst Ali Malik what kind of proof do you have that he wrote this or this your belief? As for the sky we are just looking at outer space when it is not clouded. Your statement does not sound very educated to me, more like a man wanting to believe in something what might not be there at all. While the pilgrims worship an object like a black stone somewhere in a desert and leaving other fellow believers on their dangerous journeys to the safety and riches of Western Europe.

Willem Borst Shawdi Rahbar What kind of false accusation? Please explain if you want to have a meaningful dialogue. I like the Live and let Live unfortunately many people from many religions do not want to let me live in peace and do (within reason) what I want to do.

Willem Borst Shawdi Rahbar and as going to a mosque I would have liked to have prayed with my Muslim girlfriend from the past, Hold on...this is not possible...WHY?

Willem Borst Maybe Mehidi only drinks the KoolAid? and I live in Arizona and it is not late yet and having some tea. Will have a glass of wine later even when there are many people from certain religions who would like me to stop doing this and push their agenda by bombing innocent people.

More than 70% of the HR department in Chennai Cognizant is corrupted

for job offerings with pay - above 10 Lakhs per annum. Just verify

this by sending a 100 % eligible candidate for a position posted for

salary above 10 lakhs, ask him to post his CV in Cognizant's Career

portal. Though the candidate is 100 % eligible he won't even get a

call from the HR department atleast just for a formality. Try sending

the same Eligibility Satisfying Candidate's CV/ Resume to the

respective HR's official mail ID - they will SHIFT+ DELETE all the

resumes they receive in their official webmail for jobs above 10

lakhs and wont even look at the resumes posted through company's

career portal. They just bribe huge amounts by which they are earning

more than 20 + lakhs per annum . If you support these cheap HRs then

try the above and then you'll feel the highest point of corrupted

sector in the entire India. I kindly request Cognizant's Directors

and Vice Presidents to check the webmails of the HRs and the posted

resumes in cognizant's own job portal - careers page- to know the

truth at least one in a week. This will remove all the Chennai based

Cognizant HRs crime filled with bribery and corruption.

I joined CTS in 2010 and i completed my MS in 2013 from BITS PILani from CTS itself, I was working for ITIS initially as afresher, later out my knowledge and lot of difficulties i joined EBA team, its almost 5 yrs in CTS still i am working as Programmer analyst .
Managers are f**k in *** h*** even thought they are married they are back of girls.only those people ill get good ratings.
Company is good but the Managers who are leading the project are F****rs.• Employee who does the job of their manager (excel sheet and architecture diagram) get first rating, people like me who does technical work sometimes till 11:00Pm in the night get 3rd rating

I really excited to joined in Cognizant Hyderabad. But on the last time or date of Joining, Cognizant HR had informed me There are having problem in your background verification.
Cognizant HR, I don't want to procedure your on-boarding...

HOPE SOMEBODY OR WHO CAN JOINED IN COGNIZANT...Please kept 2 to 3 offer in your hand...
IT MIGHT BE YOU ARE THE NEXT...

one of my girl friend recently joined CTS and facing the same problem from manager, giving hell torture to her and teasing a lot personally and she can't concentrate on her routine work, the manages with his friend - co worker gives hell lot of disturbance and cornering all the way in her career.

same like jacob raj one is working in cbe campus sridhar yoga edwin...such an bad hr ... no harm in putting him in slipper . there is a way to speak but he is crossig that

I am facing a lot prooblem in CTS.. especially a manager gives a torture to do all their personal works on behalf of them and threatening for the YEA appraisal will be worst. when i took this with HR Team the play a nice ### hole game and making us mad to roam all the way. I really cant understand is this company looking only for the JOB's we do or any extra floor activities takes up for our appraisal... pls advise now they have decided me to terminate me from Cognizant... pls help...some one..

Not only with CTS Chennai HRs. It happened to me in CTS Coimbatore also. I attended interview and got selected but never contacted by HR later. When I called the HR to know the status, he replied saying that they are looking for a project opportunity. If they are already aware that there no project opportunities then why do they want to conduct interviews. I attended the interview again and the same case repeated. They neither contacted me after selection nor gave proper response. CTS Coimbatore HRs - Prabu and Ashwini dont know how to organize an interview and recruit people.

I have faced same situation. I always had a respect for CTS, it being my first company . I worked for this project where managers were as disgusting as possible. Too much regionalism! My manager being a telegu lady ALWAYS ignored people from North! I never understood what bloody problem she had. She never understood problems, gave ### lectures and gyan all the time. All the time putting me down for no reason whereas I used to receive appreciation mails from onsite clients and managers for my work. They gave me 3rd bucket with no hike! People were sent onsite whom they preferred even though they were of no good! I was also sent to TCS, Chennai for project transition and after the project went off to TCS, I was on bench for continous 3months getting calls from all kinds of ### projects. Forcefully I had to look for other opportunities and resign from CTS! Also the HR ... MR.SANDEEP CHANANA is a ###. He flirts with all the lady employees and NEVER EVER helps anyone.
CTS is getting spoilt only because of these HORRIBLE BOSSES and HRs! Managers there will never bother you unless you oil them nicely. Also you wont ever get any choice as to what you wanna do and which domain you wanna go. I was called from Kolkata on a single day notice and given training on Service Desk. I was determined not to work in SD projects and luckily cleared of interviews for Production domain. Now I don't know what to do, where to go ahead in my life as I am so much confused with what I am doing right now! Ughhh!

More than 70% of the HR department in Chennai Cognizant is corrupted for job offerings with pay - above 10 Lakhs per annum. Just verify this by sending a 100 % eligible candidate for a position posted for salary above 10 lakhs, ask him to post his CV in Cognizant's Career portal. Though the candidate is 100 % eligible he won't even get a call from the HR department atleast just for a formality. The HRs will SHIFT+ DELETE all the resumes they receive in their webmail for jobs above 10 lakhs and wont even look at the resumes posted through company's career portal. They just bribe huge amounts by which they are earning more than 20 + lakhs per annum . I kindly request Cognizant's Directors and Vice Presidents to check the webmails of the HRs and the posted resumes in job portal to know the truth at least one in a week. This will remove all the Chennai based Cognizant HRs crime filled with bribery and corruption.

I am extremely happy to see these comments. Many people - 40% from my SME company who joined as freshers and trained by us in niche areas were crazy and joined these creamy 4 software companies stating they will get married only if they work in those big organizations.BrainDrain between Indian software companies made me to close my startup and went to US for survival.
Eventhough SME's contribute 40% of growth, no organization/ association is available to protect SMEs?

This company just exploit indians. Indian goevernment should change the labor laws. Do you know that in Germany you are not allowed to work for more than 8 hrs ? No wonder if you are doing an assigment for cognizant in germany then you will not be promoted

Managers in cognizant are so bad and they are the source of all the politics. They have a new weapon in their hand. Its the 4th rating. They will give this low rating to any one who does not have a good rapport. I worked in cognizant for 1 year, all the weekends but i was not compensated. Had i been a US citizen i would have sued them.

i joined the company and left it in 2 weeks stating that there was absolutely no work in the project I was already feeling brain Dead. I had neither received a laptop nor a proper seating . I had still not completed the client interview and i quit the job . Now HR is asking me to pay 150000Rs and need to know what has to be done to deal with this harassment.

I did not serve notice period

CTS mailed the offer letter, followed all the online instructions and then i was stuck. my effective date was today, and i was not contacted... if they were not to take, why did they do all these things? simply harassing people

Very bad regularization process and methods. No hard copies and proper documented coaching done with a manager. They will just say 'here's the problem, fix it' while you are eating outside for lunch or taking a walk within the company building. To add, HR would just say 'it is legal', on which it is not. There's no 30 day resignation for you to find a job. You'll be put in a meeting and that's your last day. And what is worst, you're not allowed to go outside the meeting room until you sign a piece of paper saying you quit. Cognizant, prepare your lawyers.

All of them have different different issues. There is no transparant appraisal system in Cognizant. Whoever ready to fu*** their pe**** they get good rating ..whoever is doing Jalra to their project manager they can only get good rating appraisals.. They are great fu****************

Connecting to above mentioned sadistic game of L&T Infotech inherits the mgmt technique from L&T. These guys might be running the larger company in same fashion only, this will eventually show up down the line. On above incident, these guys spent public facing company's money to take personal revenge on me. My legal notice and no-logic response from these guys are available with me. I am doing my bit to correct chronic issues of a company and save 1000's of people's career. Reqest all in this forum to do yo.urbit as well

In the above mentioned L&T Infotech's incident, I have sent a legal notice to these Saaddits ie., CEO and chairman of this L&T Infotech and got a responsethat has no logic. I have now gone to immigration authorities. The legal response from this company threatens that they will file a defamation case against me. Once I get response from immifgration authorities, I m planning to take this to public through press..

All chennai belt managers are freaking fools...Frank/Chandra...wake-up...

In L&T Infotech, I experienced saddism, they have given me key US assignment, processed a high category visa, booked the flight ticket but a day before the flying day a saddist former CEO cancelled my assignment with no logical reasons. When questions raised they harassed me to quit. Firstly, they have done a lot of fraudulent act on earlier UK & us visa. I have done my part, wrote a complaint to immigration authorities in the USA & UK. Probably the ceo cancelled my trip as I was already opposing their fraud practice...

Why blaming cts alone..it happens a lot in other co also..people experience more worst in L&T Infotech also..people should pool together to reach government

Yes, I agree. The situation happen to me when i was bench for 15 days. Some girls come out of TCO branch and cried when out from HR bay. I asked, what happen they denied to inform about their layoff verbally. I quit the company after 3 years. They gave more work but rating is poor no salary hike ( but i got 4 buckets when i was there). Company will make profit they wont consider you to take up to your life time. Don't spend money in Pizza's, KFC and French fries. Try to Avoid using star hotel and bar. Save money ASAP. If they want terminate they have to some amount (Go to labour court). As you aware no community is present for IT Employee. If you are the leader create one website and make people community. its risk and time wasting. Be cool.

yes, it is true. CTS already fired 3000 employees in april 2013. they are fairly putting negative rating and fire them. people who are
not flexible to senior manager, got negative low rating and they are fired. worst company now. hike and incentive is not given properly

Worst company and worst managers . Please try to layoff the managers ...

Worst company and worst mangers . Please try to layoff the mangers ...

The HR Cheated with me as well. They promised me with a position of a Technical Architect They said they have many projects and ample amount of resources in Mumbai. When I join the company, I see nothing. A small project in which I've been asked to work as a junior developer. I left the organization just 8 days after joining it. Now HR asks me to pay 8 lakhs - which is so insane.

I was terminated in Cognizant US, There is this bench policy of 5 weeks, you will be notified if you do no have a confirmed allocation you will be terminated and i was stuck in the month of december and when enitre country is in holiday mood, there was no hiring. Hence in the mentioned date, termination email was sent out without any questions asked. With employee having a L1 visa, no return ticket was given to home country and no over even replied to emails . employee with 7 years experience was treated like a Trash and sent out.