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team lead - total harrasment
I was working with cognizant for almost 4 years and they spoiled my professional career totally. They dont have any good techology projects nor are they good at it. all they have is stupid testing projects all over the globe which is of no use outside, and for these useless projects, managers do a lot of harrasment, especially please be aware of "Shrividhya Swamy", she's one cruel human on earth.She's so dominating and crooked and people literally get suffocated under her. CTS will go no where with people like her in the management side, all employee friendly funda is no more applicable to cts.
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human resources taking bribe to select unqualified candidates
TO
HR CHIEF,
COGNIZANT TECHONOLOGOIES LIMITED
Dear Sir,
We would like put in front of you some of the worst things that are happening in our HUMAN RESOURCE Department (HRD) of PERANGUDI cognizant Branch.
Some of the HRD people of this PERANGUDI Branch are spoiling the image of our esteemed organization very badly.Mr KANNAN, HR In charge, Mr. P V S KUMAR HR Manager and one lady executive are misusing their office capacity by recruiting NON SUITABLE persons at various capacities in our branch by taking bribe and some personal benefits. These people are very badly using their power and spoiling our company image by recruiting the unfit and non suitable candidates.
One example we would like quote here for cross checking.
Sir, recently these above said three HR personal recruited a person by name Mr. K.HARI KRISHNA (who is very close relative of Mr. PVS KUMAR).
1) This HARIKRISHNA does not have even one required qualifications for the post to which he recruited.
2) He is a very ordinary person with very very less marks in SSC, INTERMEDIATE and in DEGREE ALSO. Even FIRST class also not there.
3) Not only this he possessed MBA degree in MARKETING, where he recruited on the basis of MBA(HR).His MBA percentage is also very less.
4) He has around 8 to 9 years gap between studies. These years he wasted his time and loitered very badly.
5) His knowledge in English and his communication skills and his HR skills are literally zero. He can’t talk at least with other people in own mother tongue TELUGU.
6) His short previous experience also not related HR Department. He worked as MARKETING executive in a small private firm and that also very short term.
Sir, if you dig like this you can find out various non suitable qualities in him. He is really unfit for the post but still he was selected because he is close relative of Mr. P V S KUMAR.Mr HARI KRISHNA is not fit for attender post but now is in the post where he is judging the other candidates suitability for a job in our organization. This is really ridiculous.
we are really wondering how this HARI KRISHNA got appointment where as lot of suitable candidates with lot of hopes are waiting out side for their opportunity to serve our organization. Serving our esteemed company requires a hard and dedicated people not like HARI KRISHNA and co. This purely because of KANNAN and P V S KUMAR and LADY executive who are getting personal gainings. For their selfishness they are scarifying the company image very badly.
Sir, for the sake of the our company and suitable and desired candidates who are having lot hopes of getting an opportunity to serve our company, please take proper and stringent action on above said three HR personnel. Please remove the persons like Mr. HARI KRISHNA from the services and give opportunity for the right candidates.
Hope you will do the right thing and save our company image and save the desired candidates hopes and dreams by taking very stringent action above said three executives and removing Mr.HARI KRISHNA from the services and give opportunity to right persons.
Hope you will respond quickly for the good cause.
Thanking you sir.
CC: HR CHIEF, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
CC: CHIEFOF COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
CC: VIGILLENCE CELL, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
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gratuity not paid
It's been almost 10 months when I left Cognizant Technology Solutions but they haven't paid Gratuity yet. I have sent number of emails to Cognizant HR, Payroll, finance departments. However, they always emails/says same that we are working to resolve your query.
I have all the paperwork which proves that I am eligible to get the gratuity from Cognizant but nothing is happening. Most worrying thing is that from past one month Cognizant people have stopped replying to my emails.
It's good enough amount for a middle class people who has worked days and night to make their projects successful.
Please help me to get my money which I deserve and let me know in case you need any more details.
Many Thanks
It's been almost 10 months when I left Cognizant Technology Solutions but they haven't paid Gratuity yet. I have sent number of emails to Cognizant HR, Payroll, finance departments. However, they always emails/says same that we are working to resolve your query.
I have all the paperwork which proves that I am eligible to get the gratuity from Cognizant but nothing is happening. Most worrying thing is that from past one month Cognizant people have stopped replying to my emails.
It's good enough amount for a middle class people who has worked days and night to make their projects successful.
Please help me to get my money which I deserve and let me know in case you need any more details.
Many Thanks
i am not sure about this but i found this online
"Associates are entitled to social security measure calculated at the
rate of one month's basic pay for every completed year of service."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kenmob/jeY7h4fxH_Q
being in CTS for 4.8 years?am i eligible for gratuity?
do you get anything on this?
you can go to http://labour.and.nic.in/comp_claim.htm#gratuity
here you can download the form and apply for gratuity if your company is not giving it willingly. The details are given this site where you can give a written complaint to THE COMMISSIONER (LABOUR COMMISSIONER)
After 30 days, you wil get interest on gratuity amount until it is paid.
You cannot go out of India for this matter. You can approach the labour court. All proceedings and process shall be governed by the jurisdiction mentioned in the appointment letter.
Looks like there are whole lot of people having this problem with Cognizant. None of us got Gratuity even after serving 8 to 10 years which is unfair and Cognizant think they can get away. How about taking this legally in India, UK & USA courts..
my name - Mahesh
email - mahesh236@gmail.com
husband hires wife
Husband who happens to be a Vertical Managfer in The Hartford (CT) hires his wife who has absolutely no experience in either India or US. Wife gets hired within 6 weeks. Copy of mail from the guy asking for reference is attached.
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breah of promise
I was selected for cognizant through compussing.I was promised a job of a programmer .During the HR interview the HR said that if you would like to serve in the networking department for a few months then we will shift you to programing .But once i entered the networking department i asked if this was permanent or would i get a job as a programmer.He said it was permanent .Then after repeate requests they shifted to programming.then i was given training in JAVA and i was given to wor kin a different technology.total harrassment.
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revoked the offer letter
CTC offered me the job although I had mentioned that I had worked for them earlier for 10 days but I had to leave them as my mother was very ill. But, when this was told to HR after wards, she revoked the offer letter. This happened in CTS Mumbai and I believe that there is no point in telling the truth to these people . They dont believe in humanity, they only see money and run for money.
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I am very sorry to read about your ordeal with CTS. Cognizant is no doubt the worst company in today's modern world. This website has scores of compaints from India and the United States against CTS and this company should be legally declared as inhumane or sick.
I sure hope that your career has not been affected or your offer letter was revoked after you joined them.
Appreciate your courage to put this up on this forum and I hope this will help the younger people to make a decision if they are at any point approached by CTS.
fraud & employee harassment by cognizant
Human resources at cognizant technology solutions (Cts) has come out with a novel method to harass employees not in favour with the management. I have been at the receiving end of such a shoddy treatment engineered by mr. Jacob raj who is a senior manager, human resources, cts, chennai. This method was also being followed by third rate software companies and cognizant (Cts) has joined the bandwagon adding a professional touch.
The following happened from april 2010 onwards to a senior person with over 20 years experience in cts
A) isolation of an employee who speaks up against wrong doings in cognizant.
B) hr, cts threatens him with termination. Puts him on bench & makes him angry. Hr records conversations & put words into his mouth that there is a behavioral problem
C) hr, cts sends him for counselling sessions at his expense
D) hr, cts promises him a lucrative posting post - counselling, drag their feet and not to keep up their word
E) after 3 months, hr, cts politely sounds him to look for another job telling lies that they can't fit him into any project
F) if he does not budge, hr, cts abruptly asks him to resign and threatens him with termination again.
G) hr, cts terminates him without any written notice or intimation and removes intranet & mails access
H) on his securing a job in another organisation, hr, cts denies him a clean service certificate and blackmails him to return some monies paid to him during bench period. Jacob raj, human resources, cts, chennai refused to even meet him when he went to the office to submit resignation and get a clean exit!. Mind you, jacob raj did all this as senior manager, cts, chennai and tries to keep it clean since there is nothing in writing officially.
There is nothing on record regarding reason as to why a person with so many years of experience should be terminated! It is a harassment of a cts employee and an embarassment to cts if made public.
Blackmailing him for return of monies paid during bench - is it not cts's onus? Doesn't it look like a bribe? Is cts so poor that it requires money generated like this? Only a few days ago the president & md of cts - chandrasekaharan was proudly mentioning to a newspaper that cts is a $4 billion startup ! And i have seen it's chairman lakshmi narayanan make donations to charity and take his pictures! Wake up senior management of cognizant (Cts) - you will be better off doing charity to your employees rather than strangers! After all, charity begins at home!
Much as i respect cognizant (Cts) having been a part of it's success, this incident has left me wondering whether the hr following a vindictive policy had the approval of the top management in connivance?
Name of the person is purposely kept confidential for obvious reasons - we should not be spoiling his career just for publicity like what cognizant (Cts) has done.
If any of you had similar experience with cognizant (Cts) , kindly mail me particulars at [protected]@yahoo.com
I would like to go to press when i have enough numbers.
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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.
worst it company in the whole world!
I have been working peacefully in the last 11.5 years in the IT industry and have worked with the best and the worst in this industry. I have seen employers who do not pay salaries on time (or salaries at all - sighting several reasons), not giving proper certificates, not having toilets at the premises, not giving any overtime, etc. But never have I seen a company which has absolutely no human side and claims to earn $3 billion in revenues.
I saw an advertisement at www.naukri.com for a Technical Architect position in Cognizant and applied. After 2-3 months I was called for an interview. Some lady called Kalaivani called and scheduled the interview. I went for the interview in OMR and met a reasonable but technical guy. A good two months or later I got another call from some other HR guy who was recruiting but I told him I had been contacted by Kalaivani. A month later, another lady called Devishree called me and said this is in continuation with Kalaivani's recruitment. She scheduled me for another interview (second round she said!) and I attended that interview as well. I met a lady called Jayashree who was a director at the Whites road office in Chennai. A week or two later, I do not get any calls or confirmations and so I called Ms. Devishree. She confirmed that my candidature is being considered and an offer will be made (first time a prospective employee calls the employer and gets the offer letter!). A good two months later, I finally get the soft copy of the offer letter.
I resigned from my good employer of 5 years with a very heavy heart and reached the 'joining' office at Thuraipakkam in (a remote and mosquito infested) Chennai. An eager HR guy who reminded me of a bouncer in a bar with a tucked shirt asked me for my certificates and past experience letters. I gave him my bundle. He came back in 5 minutes saying that I do not have two previous employers' experience letters. These employers were eight years ago and had closed down during the dotcom bust and I had worked for 4 different employers after them. They had not issued experience letters as they went out of business. This was the beginning of my woes.
The following Monday, I met my new manager Ms Jayshree who did spend time with me. I did not get an employee ID and waited it for the next day. Ms Jayashree was to be in Pune for a couple of weeks and I was left alone to suffer. I kept calling the Admin and the HR and I was finally told that the recruiter Ms. Sindhu (a vamp who looks like a black poodle with lipstick on), had 'blocked' the issue of my employee ID. I sent her a couple of emails and she took her time to respond. All this while, I used to spend the day at the Whites Road office doing nothing. Two whole weeks had passed and finally she replied that she wants to meet me in person.
I go to the MEPZ office the following Monday, where she makes me wait for more than an hour (one hour and 12 minutes to be precise - she was doing nothing during this time). She comes and gives a very fake apology. We discuss and I tell her that I could not get an experience letter from these companies since they closed down. All this while she never let me talk and treated me like a criminal. She asked me how I had the guts to apply for a job in CTS without documents? I told her I had sent all the document copies to her team after they sent the offer letter and it was their job to verify and they should have verified the documents then. I told her that every decent company does a background verification and I believed even CTS (oh not decent this one!) does so. She said with her eyes closed and her head high 'Cognizant has it's own standards of verification'.
I have worked for 7 employers, applied for the UK HSMP visa and have had not a single background verification failure! Now what is the standards CTS has I wondered? She asked me to report to 'whomsoever you are reporting' to but what she meant is to get the employer certificates. How on Earth can someone get certificates from closed companies?! Does this idiot woman and her idiot company really expect that? Never for once did she mention that I HAVE TO get the certificates. I talk to my manager who advised me to talk to the HR head of that department. This man was even worse than the people who carry sacks at the Koyembedu market! He has the gall of saying that I am NOT an employee of the company and flatly denies any help. The agony that me and my family went through at that time had no end. We even contemplated suicide and I just could not think of killing my kids nor my wife. After 11.5 years, I am left on the street without a job and the guys who hired me are saying I am not wanted there.
I had another meeting with the HR VP and we agreed for a background verification and that I will not join them till it is complete.
At this time, I get another job offer from a small company who offered me the same pay. I took it up. A month later, the CTS guys come up again and say the background verification is complete and has passed. I ask them to re-issue me the offer letter to which the recruiter agreed initially. I sent reminders that I am waiting for the offer letter to which another week later I get a reply saying that no further offer letters will be made. Why cant they give me at least a week's time?! They said 'we were expecting you to join', and I was expecting them to send the offer letter or at least a word when to join. Finally they tell me on a Thursday to join on Friday (the next day!) else the offer is void.
On joining CTS, this is my state...I do not want to think what levels of pain me and my family will undergo after I resume duties there!
In my 11.5 years of career, I have never seen such a mean, boorish, unsympathetic, unprofessional and bedraggled bunch of people. I had heard rumours about CTS that their HR is very uncivilized and that they are very Tamil-oriented. Now I have first-hand proof that they are and Cognizant Technology Solutions IS THE WORST COMPANY I had ever had the misfortune to be associated with. If they had their will, they'd start coding in Tamil it looks like and they are ferociously biased to high-caste Tamils as is evident almost all of their top brass are Iyengers/Brahmins. Non-Tamils keep off or do the dirty work and get paid peanuts!
I believe me and my family have been harassed by this company and if there was any justice in India, I would have expected to either get the job or paid for the time I spent there and for the emotional agony that it caused us.
Wow, it's been 4 years and there is a complaint/comment on CTS this year too! I am surprised no action has been taken against these people so far.
Cognizant, you are beyond normal comprehension. I guess, being unruly and inhuman is good at CTS. God save all the good people from joining CTS.
If a lot of people are turning in fake experience letters, then the hiring company should ask the potential employee to submit experience letters and verify these. If such fakes are discovered, they must have legal action taken against them. Why was I denied to work when they did not verify the documents? Also, they had a background verification done and had asked me to join a month or so later. However, I had left for Dubai where my new employer had confiscated my passport (a normal procedure here - again scared of fakes and people who may run away!). I had asked CTS to re-issue a fresh offer-letter which they refused. Had they issued an offer letter, I would have joined CTS in most probability.
The question of 'Tamils' is mentioned here as this was mentioned by a lot of people I know (including non-brahmin Tamils). I had first hand experience when I saw these people in 'action'...and I must admit they have a fierce affliction for Tamil (e.g. they name all their internal ceremonies in Tamil and seem to be more comfortable in Tamil while in office). I also felt that I was not helped or given consideration because I am not Tamil myself ("Why should I help you?!" quoting Ms. Sindhu the HR lady). I have not mentioned this to hurt any community or group.
The damage these people have done to my career is irreversible and unforgivable. I am told by many lawyers that the harassment and damage done by CTS is punishable by law and that I can take action against them for denying me my career.
All documents were sent to CTS HR. They have not verified this by going through this when they received this. And I was harrased after I joined CTS and I did not have experience letter from one company which had shut down 8 years ago. I had worked this company for 1 year only and had proof that I was with this company for 6 months at least. CTS HR made a fuss for the remaining 6 months. Out of 11.5 years, is 6 months a big deal?! And nobody has a right to deny you a job if they did not do their homework. To do a background check is under the HR's discretion. Why should somebody's career suffer because of your lack of professionalism. If you are so adamant on such things you should have verified the document copies which were sent to you.
Roopesh...your comments are extremely personal and are directed against the complainant. All the sentences you have written are about 'him'. 'his', or has a 'he'. Please take your personal jealousies and problems somewhere else. This is not a forum to post personal feelings but to express valid and justifiable complaints against any entity.
Get out of that hell my dear friend. Save yourself!
Srinivas,
I am sure you have good memories of CTS. 1000s of people work at CTS and most may not have problems. But some will definitely have problems. Many overlook them or are OK with them. A company such as CTS claims to be process driven. Processes are meant to streamline business targets but also need good people who understand the processes within and outside and have a general understanding of their place in the company and it's relationship with people and society. I would expect people working at CTS HR to have basic human etiquette. In the last 11.5 years I have never seen such a raggedy looking bunch! Their attitude is despicable and utterly snobbish and unacceptable.
Why do I say 'they'? The people who are part of an organisation should be aware that they represent a company and that their words and actions are a direct representation of the company. What will you think of Microsoft if Bill Gates swore and called people names or said Indians are an 'inferior' race? Would you want to work there? Would you buy any Microsoft product? Not unless you swore and called people names or said Indians are an 'inferior' race yourself !
No law on Earth except perhaps the laws of primitive tribes and cannibals perhaps, treats a man guilty before he is proven guilty. And these guys have no right to insult people. In-spite of sending them all my experience and academic certificates, this team did not bother to check these documents and adhere to their own process. They then never mention this goof. Yes, this is not just one person but a team! You cannot say an individual. The HR Recruiter and her team and her boss and a couple of other people too were aware of this. None of them even for once mentioned to help or did anything positive. I found it reminiscent of someone trying to get rid of an unwanted guest. I strongly believe the situation would have been entirely different if I was Tamil.
Mr. Srinivas, you seem to be Tamil and for Tamils 'elaam sooper-aarkke!' (everything is super at CTS). Yes, I have been told by a lot of people that CTS is a Tamil-pro company. Why would they name all their events in Chennai in Tamil (I am not sure how it is in other places)? These are unbelievable things I heard about CTS and I did dismiss them as rumours. But not untill I saw and heard it with my own eyes. You seem to have been a campus recruit and for young inexperienced minds like you these are invisible. Lets see what you say in 5 years from now.
See the number and nature of complaints that are on this website and each is real. No other Indian company has such 'fan-following'. Now i know why they are hiring 1000s. CTS knows that if water flows out but then if there is a flow in too, it take quite a while for the pond to empty!
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They check everything about the employee, but they submit fake resumes of their own employees to USCIS. They will even show a QA resource as directory with fake reporting structure and apply green card in the EB1 Category. That is their level of ethics.
Yeah it is one of the worst hr company . I was working in TCS . On January 16 I got a call from CTS for interview in Kolkata . First round interview and HR discussion I got selected but my recruiter was a lady (Lincy ) who is sitting in Chennai office. I have sent my all documents through mail to her on 2 nd Feb 2016 but I did not get any reply mail to her after 100 times call and 13 to 14 mail she gave replied the process is going on. On march 16 I got offer letter and for BG need to submit again the documents which I have been already send to Lincy . So I uploaded all documents in CTS portal for back ground verification on march 16 . In the mean time I had sent mail to Lincy what further process need to be done . Again after several time calls and mails she replied my BG has been done and cleared . So June 16 joined CTS . After 10 days later suddenly they send mail to say need to submit form 16 of my 1st company which is already closed .I did not collect Form 16 for the same company . For that reason they fired me .What they are doing when I have send my all documents through mail . Immediately I called to the HR of Kolkata office, they simply said we don't know contact with ur recruiter.So called to the Lincy and she was busy as usual did not pick the call, send the mail to her at 5.30 pm she replied I don't know it is BG issue BG team know that . After two three days contact with different person &HR . Suddenly Lincy called me and said I am not ur recruiter . So contact with your recruiter . Who will be the responsible for my situation . I lost my job . If my documents are not sufficient then why they should hired me and after hiring why fired me .Is it not their responsibility to check the documents what they want . Now I am on the road . My name is Raj Shaw .
your story is very sad story. HR team is not very good in Cognizant. But the Admin guys are very good.
The higher management plays the proxy-role of HR in Cognizant. HR behaves like their secretary.
The interviewer is not always the recruiter. In Cognizant, an employee is assigned to a project, based on an SO (Service Order) signed by client. Once a project manager raises a resource request, the HR of common deployable pool (CDP) tries to arrange it. They check CDP, they try to sell freshers into the open position, they try to hire contractors - and finally they go for recruitment drive. When recruitment drive happens, technical interviewers are randomly picked from any project, as per the availability of the interviewer on week-ends. The project from where the interviewer comes, may not even have raised the resource requirement. So the interviewer may not be able to tell much about the recruitment related queries - only the HR can tell. The interviewer gave you a cold shoulder, because its not a matter of her interest. The actual recruiting manager may have been madly looking for new hires to complete his project, and probably he never even got to see your face. In Cognizant, if HR gets a nod from the Associate Director level, the HR will do whatever it takes - HR will ignore BG, or the HR will arrange for counterfeit documents to fill up the gap in BG, because BG is often times mandated by the client side.
AD employees are the real bosses in Cognizant - all the power is vested in their hands. If you are on good terms with one AD in Cognizant, you have a superb career ahead. But you have to build the rapport with them. You have to give them what they exactly need, in terms of delivery or resource training or bringing in new business for the business unit.
HI All,
"Cognizant is the worst organization"
Who simply call for interview n waste our time without giving offer letter . I f we call them they will tell us to wait .. after waiting 3 months they will have fake sorry to tell ... Sorry we dint get the expected project ..
They could have told this before itself why? to ask candidates to wait n people in Bangalore CTS are the worst they will make you to wait for hours just to tell your selected for next round or your rejected .
Every process is slow n They don't value for time ..
I strongly recommend management to provide some "Time management Training program " to your employes
Dont show off just by creating pages in Facebook that you help candidates If they have any problem .. They don't even turn to you after getting auto-generated mail .
-- Words with heave heart
I have too faced this problem after completed 90 days Notice Period ...they told after 90 th day u not included ur old company name like that.
I lost my current job too.They told before 15 days i retained my old job.And Even every two weeks they called are u confirmed to join thats y i not tried any where.Finally i came to know i selected project not got sign off.During Notice period don't believe in one offer.
I would like to put in front of you some of the worst things that are happening in cognizant Banglore.
CTS people are very badly using their power and spoiling the company image by recruiting the unfit and non suitable candidates.
I never worked with cognizant but I have my best friends working with this company. And also, I know the people who joined there with fake experience (they don't even know mail drafting) on TIBCO with expected salary, they are still able to survive from last 1 year .
Recruiting fake people will definitely cause you the lose. In our country, there are many talented resources who are very much waiting for a opportunity. Instead of encouraging these fake people, why don't you give a chance to genuine talented people.
Sir, I hope you will do the right thing and give opportunity for desired candidates, Which helps for company development obviously.
Hope you will respond quickly for the good cause.
I worked with Cognizant for 10 years and left few months ago. They sent experience letter with joining date & relieving date informaiton. Nothing else about the position I joined / at time of relieving. Now i request them to give in a format with technologies worked, position held. After one month they agreed to give in soft copy & NOT Hard copy. How can I justify this is the Original? The same cognizant requested me to get my previous experience letters in hard copy format.. Pathetic that I worked for ### for 10 years.. ### Company.
Hi friends I had interview with Cognizant on 7th July 2014 I undergone 2 round s of interview, finally HR said I am selected and to fill Employee form with that I have attached all my certificate(photo copy). They said HR Interview will be conducted in upcoming week still now I didn't get any calls from them can any one help to get contact of Cognizant HR.
This is john from banglore.puviarasu is very worst employee is your company because he is spreading out company project.please check out the issuse
Agreed
one of the worst company to work for.I have given interview and everything is done(technical+HR).that ###er HR promise to provide the offer letter within 1 week.But it almost more than 1 month.Giving multiple calls and sending e-mails but no response.I request you to people who ever want to Join CTS be careful.HR are simply worst and pathetic.
poor treatment of onsite employes
CTS is worse than a body shopping company. I m recruited in CTS-Singapore and was sent to Swiss for a 3 month training at client. Once I report to Swiss CTS, no one bothers to care about my dependant visas or reloation back to Singapore. I have to ask my wife to resign n join me at Zurich. I had to fight my way back to Singapore ( I m a Singapore resident and I wish to stay at Singapore). I convince client to relocate me to Singapore team. But CTS takes advantage of the oppurtunity and works the recontract with higher billing and sells me as Sr Project Manager (as same level as client hiring manager but I m not briefed on that). Client holds me for 1 year and due to interim bad relations with CTS account managers starts terminating CTS resources. As a result my contract with client dint get renewed. CTS asks me immediately return to India (though client assures me 1 month notice). CTS doesnt brief me on India pay package till I land at Pune. Once I land at Pune, I m shell shocked to see the offer (salary refittment) they put. Its just 9 lks for 9 years experienced. (the same was offered in 2007 April by company x, and now its 3 years since then). They dont promote me to APM, still hold me at SA level. They dont even pay my return travels charges (Taxi fare). Still not sure if they are going to pay my 10 days India stay. Stupid stingy crap company. Guess what I did in the next 15 mins after knowing the refitted Indian salary. I put down my papers and stream of congrajulations poured on me.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Cognizant is a hell. I became CTS employee by the means of the transition from UBS to CTS.
I agree CTS is not good for lateral hires, you need to be from Chennai or kolkata or Pune to move your way up in the org. Salaries at CTS are below par. Anyways CTS has nothing to offer apart from cheap billing rates to its end clients and all the issues are offshot of this problem.
politics
Cognizant(CTS) is knows as Chennai Tech Solutions, the company owned and operated by Chennai people...Really pathetic experience from such people. If you speak tamil, you will get whatever you want even if you don;t deserve. All team members speak in tamil even though you have team members who does not understand tamil, speaking tamil in all meeting is recommended by Managers...you can imagine the internal work environment of this company...Do not just see the profit and revenue. Once non-tamil person enters Cognizant, his life gets screwed up like anything...Most of the decision making leaders are Tamil, don't we have others who can do better job ? Forgot about the promotions, onsite travel etc if you are non-tamil even if you exceed all expectations... Really pathetic company to work with... I would recommend Non-tamil members not to join Cognizant, first get feedback from existing non-tamil employees before joining Cognizant..
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Yes, It's purely tamil technology solutions. Here is the formula... If you are not tamilian but working good they will overburden you, focus on your negatives, makes mountain hills out of a mole and then isolation to make you as their slave. If you say any objection on this, company has separate department for doing all unethical things on you, these depart don't have rules. Believe me it happened to me. They will create fake cognizant id's then isolation of an employee, harass them mentally by sending mails with these id's and change their reporting location every 15 days to harass them.
In my case, My HR was a fake id (physically not exist) only thing is he can reply automatically. I had maintained all the proofs of all the unethical things happened to me by hoping one day i could show this to higher authorities and expected help from them.
But when the day i reported to higher authorities with all proofs, by naming few people with their fraud actions. They didn't take any action on them, Instead My access to intranet got disconnected immediately and i was forced to leave the company without any reasons. I got understood the matter here, because all the higher management is tamil, tamilians will be favoured in all forms and others will be suffered.There is pure regional discrimination here.
Tom Jirele did take Bribary: Link below:
http://articles.philly.com/2004-02-03/news/25373353_1_finance-violations-complaint-state-campaign-finance-laws
Tom Jirele the U.S. data Science lead has a very bad reputation of very degrading to people he can take advantage of, people who are lower socioeconomic status. He is known to degrade woman in the organization of Cognizant. He grabbed my butt while I was walking down the hall. I also hear from data scientist that he know very little about the subject area and only in the company because of political reasons. He also took bribery from many corporations when running for office in the school district township.
Hi All,
I got shortlisted for Cognizant - Chennai on contract role (3 - 6 months) for recruiter position.
Kindly share your advices . Here is possible for C2H or the will allocated new project.
I have totally 4.8 years of experience in Manual Testing
And one more thing, without any reference, you can not get transfer.If you are a girl then they sucker b**** people will give you transfer for no reasons, if you are a guy having no reference- it's impossible to get transfer at all. This is the most gender biasing and tamil language biasing company.You can't hope for any equality here.
hi, i am nitin kumar.I am working as a programmer analyst trainee in cognizant, chennai.i am here since march, 2014.Actually i belong from delhi. If you join CTS, then you compromise with your dreams.I tried my level best each time in front of managers to get transfer into gurgaon after completing training, but they told that i will have to work only in chennai and i will not get any transfer even after 5 long years.
Everyone from south india can adjust between tamilians because their language is very similar, but for a north indian guy like me-they treat like alliens and don't interact friendly and makes your life so miserable that you will start thinking to leave this company from the first day. They use their stupid language in meetings and force you to learn their language. So if you want to join company, then learn tamil first and start eating disgusting south indian food all the times.And specially for vegetarian people like me-it's a place of death, So start eating non-veg before coming to chennai.
Hi friends I got selected in cognizant.could I know what is the salary in probation period .
My friend who is from Hyd also faced similar experience.She was good at implementing new ideas but, that made her to spoil career as she was working from chennai. what ever new idea she was implementing, team members managers, Sr.managers and techleads everyone asked her to present ideas infront of the world as their implementation.The only reason is, she was not from chennai.They tortured her to leave chennai by blaming her with all non-sense things.Shocking, if a girl is doing well in her career, to stop that they made her life miserable, what not to say blamed her as mis-behaving with guys, a thief and made her as a servent to everyone in the project for all tamilians.Not allowing her to go to other company as she will improve there.They have forced her to join in the company they asked her to join as somelead maintains a Recruitment firm/Consultancy.
The only reason is she was an extraordinary performer.They all implemented her ideas but cheated her and spolied her career and she was just 3 years experienced. I need someone to help her.
she left that job and searching for new job.kindly, please update if there is anyother way to join into other company.
A girl is an enemy to other girl . Qll other girls also followed orders of leads and cheated her.
kindly, if anyone can help her to join into company which she wishes please update this forum. I will help my friend.
Thanks!
Hi RGHR,
I also joined cognizant for contract to hire for 6 months. you joined in 2013. Could you share your experiance...? Have they taken you as permanent employee...please let me know.
Hi, , got shortlisted for Cognizant - Chennai on contract role (3 - 6 months) for recruiter position.
Kindly share your advices
unethical hr and management
The HR team in Cognizant is very unethical. They are like the mafia. When my manager along with the account management team worked unethically, I reported it to the HR, and the HR threatened to kick me out of the organization in the pretext of something else. The Code of Ethics is a document to cover the unethical operations performed by the senior management. Management team performs unethical stuff all the time. They bill for offshore staff who are on vacation. And they lie about the skill sets of associates. And they make onsite coordinators lie about the work completed by offshore. They lie about anything and everything. They set an example to the subordinates that not only is it okay to lie, but also that those who don't lie are against the organizational goals.
We shouldn't be forced to lie by our management. And we need HR and Talent Managers who have some bit of ethics and conscience. Our CEO and HR heads should try to pay more attention to the small details of organizational ethics instead of caring only about revenue. Management shouldn't teach values that it is okay to take advantage of the clients for the sake of money.
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What the Cognizant HR Mr.Jahid Iqbal is thinking, I don't know. I almost cleared the interview. In the final round, He asked me about CTC and I said 3.5 to 4 LPA. He immediately said I'm rejecting you. Is this proper code of conduct? Actually, The salary is 2.8 LPA per annum according to description and I was Ok with it and cleared primary rounds of interview. He should not have asked the expected salary and even of he ask so, he should have said we only pay this range of salary. He has no right to reject me when I answered for a choice given to me. That HR is not properly trained it seems. Freshers are not puppets. This organisation may loose the goodwill if these type of HRs are present.
One of the worst.. Being an ex- employee i resigned four years back. I had my good reasons to leave the managers threatened me to not hire again and he did that and rated me negative intentionally. I cleared all the round after that 5 times and never got an offer later internally found that they had rated and commented negative on me despite of good work. These people dont deserve good candidates and that is the reason this company has become piece of thrash.. stupid HR and managers with no sense. Done join or even go for an interview... There are lot of good companies.
I agree with all the posts, I am an ex-Cognizant employee and my husband still works with Cognizant. He is been tortured and harassed by the manager on the basis of ratings and onsite for not giving company to him for drinks. None of his leaves have been approved for an year which is really affecting him mentally.
He can neither complaint to his manager's manager nor to HR as all of them have same mentality and they support each other.
I feel like whatever Cognizant projects about Ethics, Compliance, Harassment, Regulations etc...is all fake and just for making name. No HR in the company actually listens to the voice or investigates any complaints because they are getting salary then why to worry about others.
I couldn't agree more. A few days ago I went for an interview at Cognizant in Kolkata, India, I cleared all the rounds and at last was waiting for the salary discussion. The HR (don't know if she deserves to be called one) I spoke to for this was Miss Priyanka Chatterjee. She remained extremely rude and hostile during the entire discussion and had a mocking and sarcastic tone of voice during the conversation. Her body language and facial expressions remained negative throughout. I kept thinking to myself as to what could be the possible reason for a person to be this hostile towards me but could not figure anything out. At the end of the discussion she said she would get back to me. It's been weeks and I haven't heard from them (another thing Cognizant should implement is give proper necessary feedback at the end of an interview and not keep people in the dark, I mean people have a right to know upfront whether they were selected or not or what went wrong..at the least tell them your decision other than making them anticipate or speculate..that's just one of the many unethical things Cognizant does) . Well coming back to my story, it turned out that Miss Chatterjee is indeed extremely unprofessional and unethical..the reason for her behaviour was that she is a friend of one of my ex's and his ex wife (sounds funny.. I know :P). It was evident that she held some kind of a personal grudge against me for this reason. This kind of unprofessional and unethical behaviour is absolutely uncalled for and disgraces a reputed organisation like Cognizant. I'm surprised how such people are hired..does Cognizant not have a proper code of conduct and does it overlook such instances, as she was pretty confident while behaving this way, as if she knew that the company would do nothing even if the issue was escalated. A word of advice to Cognizant, kindly take good care of your employees as they make your company and investigate the actions of your HR department, I'm sure you would find quite a few skeletons in their closet.
I agree as this has happened at healthnet.Some Cognizant employees at health net got their house wifes through hiring managers at healthnet.some of the house wifes had no computer related education, no computer work experience, whatever is assigned even small things to them at the clients place is being done by others assigned by their husbands or husbands friends.we are made to work on weekend or late hour and do not get this wonderful treatment.
cognizant recently hired a bunch of house wife's at one of their client location in Los angeles.These house wife's did not have any computer related experience, computer education and work experience but were hired through the back doors as they were the wifes of the cognizant management folks at this clients place.Something is wrong somewhere.
Cognizant recently hired a bunch of their managers house wife's at one of their client location in Los Angeles area.Heard that the house did not have any work experience and computer skills.They were wifes of managers who are working for cognizant at this client place
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
TO
HR CHIEF,
COGNIZANT TECHONOLOGOIES LIMITED
Dear Sir,
We would like put in front of you some of the worst things that are happening in our HUMAN RESOURCE Department (HRD) of PERANGUDI cognizant Branch.
Some of the HRD people of this PERANGUDI Branch are spoiling the image of our esteemed organization very badly.Mr KANNAN, HR In charge, Mr. P V S KUMAR HR Manager and one lady executive are misusing their office capacity by recruiting NON SUITABLE persons at various capacities in our branch by taking bribe and some personal benefits. These people are very badly using their power and spoiling our company image by recruiting the unfit and non suitable candidates.
One example we would like quote here for cross checking.
Sir, recently these above said three HR personal recruited a person by name Mr. K.HARI KRISHNA (who is very close relative of Mr. PVS KUMAR).
1) This HARIKRISHNA does not have even one required qualifications for the post to which he recruited.
2) He is a very ordinary person with very very less marks in SSC, INTERMEDIATE and in DEGREE ALSO. Even FIRST class also not there.
3) Not only this he possessed MBA degree in MARKETING, where he recruited on the basis of MBA(HR).His MBA percentage is also very less.
4) He has around 8 to 9 years gap between studies. These years he wasted his time and loitered very badly.
5) His knowledge in English and his communication skills and his HR skills are literally zero. He can’t talk at least with other people in own mother tongue TELUGU.
6) His short previous experience also not related HR Department. He worked as MARKETING executive in a small private firm and that also very short term.
Sir, if you dig like this you can find out various non suitable qualities in him. He is really unfit for the post but still he was selected because he is close relative of Mr. P V S KUMAR.Mr HARI KRISHNA is not fit for attender post but now is in the post where he is judging the other candidates suitability for a job in our organization. This is really ridiculous.
we are really wondering how this HARI KRISHNA got appointment where as lot of suitable candidates with lot of hopes are waiting out side for their opportunity to serve our organization. Serving our esteemed company requires a hard and dedicated people not like HARI KRISHNA and co. This purely because of KANNAN and P V S KUMAR and LADY executive who are getting personal gainings. For their selfishness they are scarifying the company image very badly.
Sir, for the sake of the our company and suitable and desired candidates who are having lot hopes of getting an opportunity to serve our company, please take proper and stringent action on above said three HR personnel. Please remove the persons like Mr. HARI KRISHNA from the services and give opportunity for the right candidates.
Hope you will do the right thing and save our company image and save the desired candidates hopes and dreams by taking very stringent action above said three executives and removing Mr.HARI KRISHNA from the services and give opportunity to right persons.
Hope you will respond quickly for the good cause.
Thanking you sir.
CC: HR CHIEF, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
CC: CHIEFOF COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
CC: VIGILLENCE CELL, HEAD OFFICE, THORAIPAKKAM,
Have anyone dealt with Cognizant Recruiting ?. They are worst of all to do business with.
I had relationship with client so client agreed to hire a consultant from me but i had to go through cognizant because they are preferred vendor. Cognizant asked me candidate's phone saying they want to talk to candidate to make sure he is good. After talking to candidate, they bypassed my company and contracted directly. You will never expect such greedy action from any american company.
When comes to ethics cognizant as a company and management has zero ethics. I think we all should file a class action lawsuit against this company. For every penny they will do anything to steal it from you. Shame on you cognizant ! Same on you
hr operations and poor integrity
When a company grows it is important to hold tight the values as well as to conform to the policies, which makes it viable for its next level. Looks like Cognizant is not cared about it and sure this negative attitude will show up if it continues not to care for a long time.
To cite an example, Cognizant has not announced the promotion list till today which was due to March end (Almost 2 months delay). There has not been any communication to employees regarding why the delay or when the results should be expected. Management do not attend to or bother to answer the questions raised in company forums and HR helpdesks.
This shows primarily, how weak they are in HR operations and organizational communications. The value given to employees comes next.
Imagine the fate of the project if the software developers and engineers and project leads shows the same kind of attitude - ie; two months after deadline also no communication regarding the delay and when it is expected. Also ignoring emails and query from clients about the delivery ;)
It will not go till two months. In a couple of weeks they will be thrown out of the project if they show an attitude similar to what they receive from their employer.
Hopefully management will realise it's weak links sooner than later.
The HR team in Cognizant is very unethical. They are like the mafia.
When my manager along with the account management team worked unethically, I reported it to the HR, and the HR threatened to kick me out of the organization in the pretext of something else.
The Code of Ethics is a document to cover the unethical operations performed by the senior management. Management team performs unethical stuff all the time. They bill for offshore staff who are on vacation. And they lie about the skill sets of associates. And they make onsite coordinators lie about the work completed by offshore. They lie about anything and everything. They set an example to the subordinates that not only is it okay to lie, but also that those who don't lie are against the organizational goals.
We shouldn't be forced to lie by our management. And we need HR and Talent Managers who have some bit of ethics and conscience. Our CEO and HR heads should try to pay more attention to the small details of organizational ethics instead of caring only about revenue. Management shouldn't teach values that it is okay to take advantage of the clients for the sake of money.
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poor service!
Mr. Reguraman Deivasigamani is not at all good in his technical skills. He don't knwo anything. He lies. He tells he has some 12 years of software experience but when you talk with him you will come to know that he do not know anything.
In his whole so called 12 years of exp he has worked only 4 months at onsite. Even he cant talk properly in technical language. No professionalism.
What else to say man... I am feeling bad because, I don't have anything to learn from him. Usually people learn from their seniors but here no chance...
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This is to add few points about Reguraman Deivasigamani's technical skills. Let him ### about his 12 years of IT experience. If he really has that much experience. Why the bloody hell he is in almost all the testing forums and asking basic questions to the real experts about testing? You people may wonder what I'm talking about. I will add some details about his questions in testing forums for your information. Basically he doesn't know anything technical other than just treating people badly, just because he didn't get any promotion in his career. When companies are firing people for non performance how the management of Cognizant is still retaining people like Deivasigamani without firing him?
Just because he didn't get any promotion, he never gives promotions or good ratings and hikes to any of his well performing team members unless until they fight with him and escalate to higher management, this is really the very sad part. If the Cognizant Management still ignore this feedback about this useless Manager, people are going to leave the good company and it is really a big loss for the company.
As I promised a few basic questions that Deivasigamani asking in forums and the links FYI.
Hi friend,
Pls explain what is high level design document and low level documents in the software development life cycle with suitable examples.
Thanks, Deivasigamani
http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/27909
Hi,
I would like to know the following.
1) What is software testing methodologies? What are all the different types?
2) What is software testing process?
3) What is the difference between the software testing methodologies and software testing process?
4) Block box and white box will come under software testing types of testing methodologies?
Regards,
R.Deiva
http://www.qaforums.com/Forum2/HTML/000990.html
A person who doesn't know these basic things is a Manager for Testing Services in Cognizant Technology Solutions. God Bless You Cognizant.
Reguraman Deivasigamani is a working as a delivery manager with Wipro - Goodluck wipro!
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hi guys
since ther was a mention about training, i would like to know when will i be called for trainnin...i was selected in campus 2007 july...frm chennai...since u ppl are wrkin ther probably you might hav a hint..anybody..?
Hi Guys,
Where did our Deiva disappear after he left CTS? Does anyone know his where abouts?
Cheers!
Ann
I joined CTS in chennai for training.
We batch 261 were placed in some baba aashram remote area like semi jungle.
No decent facilities.
That to one day electricity went off.
It was end of patience and guys did lot of shouting.
Next day cognizant HR called few guys among us randomly.
he said…..
what do u think abt urself.. i have got contacts and can do whatever i want to u
even Chandra cant do anything about it…
and at last he said…. If I r a p e any girl…no one can touch me
Such a slang language
better understood what this company really is…
I totally agree with these points, this guy don know anything the sad truth is he don even know ENGLISH. He did only post master job in CTS. he will simply forward mails and if he want to send anything of his own, then his jalras will do that for him and in his system itself. During appraisal this guy didnt know what comment he shud add and for that he got help from one of his jalras!Extreme comedy is the mail he sent one day and the subject is SUPER IMPORTANT...we heard of very important...what the hell is SUPER IMPORTANT?Only god and he knows the meaning...Guys he never had 12 yrs software experience, he came into CTS and was doing the role of Elizabeth...its really good time for orbitz and bad time for the asociates in his new company...Please join with me to prayer for that poor company and associates...
Hi Guys,
Doesn't even speak English well. One is forced learn and converse in Tamil to make him understand the basic processes in testing practice. I would also challenge him to publish the list of papers on testing that he may have presented to any conference. I'm extremely confident that the answer will be NIL.
Cognizant should wake up to the reality of many such managers in its Bangalore office. Also, it should promote and nurture genius managers like Stan Iyer or K Prabhakaran or Kaleeswaran Ganapathy to checkmate the menace of 'D=Don Dieva'.
Yes, it's 100% correct. He got a very good person in his team as his coordinate at offshore who was having long and exclusively IT exp and the assignment was given to his subordinate to take care of complete tech and project management. That direction came from the BLR Director of testing services. But from day 1 to last day of that employee harassed like hell and that guy was so patient and got transfered to other CTS location. He did very good job during his tenure in this project and completely managed the project as a shadow manager. Even onsite folks were very careful when they are interacting with the subordinate. But this manager as usual harassed that guy from day one and damaged his image and character assassination. Due to that subordinate professional approach, he didn't complained to anybody and got transfered to other CTS locations. Even he didn't discussed to that guy, after the subordinate left the other location, he made his rating for his appraisal as EM (third rating). To give one example about this Deivasigamani, he rated as very poor management, leadership quality and lack of tech skills. But he rated his subordinate as third ranking. Deivasigamani called his jallras, and like kiran at onsite a pa seeking support for promotion. Imagine how this Orbitz manager behavior. The present Testing director knows everything, but due to his golden heart, he gave lot of golden opportunity to survive him in the same project.
Deivasigamani suggest promotion list only for his jallras, those who are supplying multimedia cd (film, songs). Even one his jallra also posted complaint against him, that was really surprising.
very poor service!
Cognizant Technology Solutions doesn't take care of it's employees. There are no reward systems and the salary is very low. I joined as a lateral recruiter in India with a comparable salary, but I was forced (to the point of threatening) to go onsite to USA since I was visa-ready and there weren't others available with the required skills and a visa. At onsite, my salary was very low and I was not able to take care of my wife and children on this salary. I worked long hours - day and night and never spent time with my family. This created a rift with my wife. My manager gave me promises of promotion and so I worked. A promotion also meant that my salary would increase and this could help me take care of my family in USA and my parents and brother in India. But when the time for promotion came, my manager said that there are others on the queue and he also reduced my rating since only those who have to be promoted gets high ratings. In Cognizant, during appraisal times, the manager doesn't rate us according to the work, but rather according to the people his manager tells him needs to be promoted. I was unmotivated and asked to go back to India immediately, but my manager gave me false promises of promotion in the next cycle. When I refused to believe him, he along with his manager threatened me and insisted that I don't leave. I am the only support for my family, so I had to stay. Then, in a few months, due to poor code quality from offshore, the project got scraped and I returned to India with my family. I was moved to another project. My offshore salary is now as low as the base salary. The new manager refused to nominate me for promotion because as expected, 1. he already has his list of faithful people that need to be promoted 2. I just moved into the account and new people aren't supposed to be promoted. 3. I got the lowest rating because those who are to be promoted gets the highest ratings even if they are poor at working. 4.The people who butter the senior management gets promoted. It has reached a point where the manager will directly tell us that he will give us the lowest rating because he cannot promote us and it has nothing to do with our work quality.
I have given my resignation and will leave soon. But those who are planning to join Cognizant, please remember to not move from country to country and please don't plan to stay long enough to get promoted. Also remember that offshore code quality is poor and onsite coordinators will be stressed to produce some quality code. Offshore works a lot, but it is difficult for us to anticipate customer needs without actually facing them once. In offshore the main developers are young freshers without experience. The Senior Associates and APMs should start coding, instead of blindly using the rest of us as scapegoats.
100% true.
I have joined on august. I have worked on two projects and got appreciation from both of them but i got 4th rating. This is worst company. people dont join here. They will throw it at anytime. Poor management, no one will hear our voice.
Highly corrupt management; Just like corrupt politicians ; The (real) best performers, i.e. the ones who do all the real work (technical work, client communications, end-to-end troubleshooting, other innovative work) are given the worst appraisals and NEVER promoted and the ones who neither have technical skills nor communication skills but just do personal work for their managers and their family members are given the top appraisals and promoted every alternate year.
I have been at A level for 8 yrs and I am leading a team of SA and M resources majority of whom donot have proper technical or communication skills but still I am never promoted but my team members move from A to SA to M after every 2 years.
hi, i appeared for CTS devops position interview. and got selected for the same . discussed salary and locations from HR. he told me next week they will release offer letter. but till yet no offer received from them. i guess i totally wasted 10 hours for their interview in gurgaon.
I have worked for 4 Years 8 months in Cognizant Technology Solutions. September 25th 2015 was my last working day. I had to quit the organization because my manager was monitoring my mails and communicator chats. Each and every chat on oc was viewed by manager. At first i thought it was ok but later he started monitoring my phone as well. Each and every call and message, messages on whatsapp, viber, etc on my phone was viewed by that cheap guy. Gradually he got scared and asked others to access my phone. Gradually many managers got involved in this including the HR's. List kept on increasing i could here many people discussing about my personal life. I can think of only one reason why he did this was he was very possessive about me i guess and i still cant imagine why other people where discussing me, my personal life is as normal as anybody else's. Other people instead of confronting him joined him in this shameless act. I had no other go than quitting. Now i am still not sure whether they are still continuing to monitor my phone. I am unable to use my own phone and this is very frustrating. Spying is an illegal act atleast now they should stop as i have quit the company. I have already changed my number 2 - 3 times. Can somebody please help me ?
I have an experience of 4.5 yrs in Cognizant. When i joined cognizant, i had almost 3.7 yrs of experience of IT exp and 1 year of Non-IT exp. They gave me Associate-Projects as designation. From past 4.5 yrs, nothing has changed for me. I am struggling to get the promotion.No one cares. My salary has increased only 1.5 lakhs. I have worked so much for the company doing all the good job and getting client appreciation. All worthless to the management. These people hire new resources with experience much less than mine and give then Sr. Associate designation with good salary. I saw people having 5.5yrs of experience getting Sr. associate designation and salary upto 10.5 lakhs. Mine after working for 4.5 yrs is still 8.13 lakhs. The only good thing which happened to me in past 4.5 yrs is that i got UK onsite opportunity that to with a visa validity of 1 year. Cognizant has made a salary structure that anyone at Associate level wont get salary more that 40k and hence his visa cannot be extended. Onsite client needs me but the poor company has its own rules and regulations. For me, the only option left is to quit cognizant and give a swing to my career. Cognizant says' HERE WE GROW'..this tag line is nothing but a myth. In reality, here we don't grow rather than we get frustrated. I have made my mind to quit cognizant by this year end if i don't get promoted. And someone ask me the question that would i like to join again, then my answer would be a Big NO.
I strongly agree, he people who butter the senior management gets promoted and not because of Work :(
Winning a lotto lottery is much easier in cognizant rather than getting promotion. CTS is worst of lot and if you are onsite its worst of all Promotion you may have keep appeasing your manager and his family . put lot of likes on his facebook page. Love him adore him adulate him and if you can not do any of the things then suck it up . Promotion is far fetched dream for hard-workers smart workers and sincere workers. Cognizant is worst company i have ever worked.YOu have to be YES Man of your M.
Great Qualities:
Brainless Mid-level Managers,
Poor Organisational structure,
Merging irrelevant streams into a single unit and comparing associates for appraisal/promotion,
Encourages only people who Butters managers,
Hike % can be utilized to pay tax.
its 100% true.
HR people & their advertisement:
HR people came to our college. told a lot of good things about cognizant mainly the revenue part and cognizant beats TCS, INFOSYS blah blah blah which has no relation with the work culture and employee satisfaction.
Work culture in COGNIZANT:
Official timing 9.30am-6.30pm. but it was only for the new people. all the senior members of the team comes to the office @12.30pm. they come to their chair put their bags and go to ground floor for breakfast & morning cigarette. they come to their seat @1.30pm open their desktop check mails (official & personal), facebook and it's 2pm for lunch break. lunch break breaks @ 3.30pm they again come to their seat open their desktop and start a phone call. at the end of the call no result and they start quarreling among themselves upto 4.30pm. @ 4.30pm again smoking time which ends @ 5.30pm. after that official works starts from 6pm. till that time new people have to wait. obviously @ 6.30 they want to go back to their home but senior people don't give permission.
Bench culture in COGNIZANT:
HR people should get a Nobel because they continuously lying to the new people by saying there is no bench in cognizant!
after training (the most low grade training) new people are deployed into various projects as BUFFER resource that means no allocation, no visibility to client which convey the message to the company that these particular employees did nothing for the company.
Project managers & other seniors take the new people to do their work by them and they just come to the office and do nothing but time wasting which is described in the above point and before the delivery day they panics and create lot of pressures to the new people. After successful demonstration they took the credit and the new people gets nothing but he has is no right to say this if he says it he will be in global bench.
Rating & Promotion:
The only key to get promotion is Buttering Buttering & Buttering.
I have 20 months of experience in this company and finally left it on 3rd April, 2013. On the last day HR called me for exit interview and asked whether I have plan to rejoin. I said NO.
the manager will never consider you as a human being
I am working for Cognizant. I am also from the team called Orbitz. I advice people in Cognizant to be cognizant of the Orbitz team and please do not join this team. It's a team with 100+ members. The manager of this team, Deivasigamani Reguraman, will never consider you as a human being. He never allows people in his team to take leave. He monitors each and everyone like a College HOD (this is what his previous profession was). He still thinks he is in a college and wants everyone of the team members to be under his control. After office hours, we should be ready to take up extra works not related to project. Actually he expects us to work from 9 to 6 and after that should take up extra work and he says only when we do extra work, he may recommend us for any promotions / onside opportunities... This is the real thing happening in the project. We will never get a recognition for the good work unless we do some extra personal works for him. Only his 'Trusted Lieutenants' will get every opportunity. I think even his direct boss, The director is afraid of him. Otherwise atkease he would have advised him. He never listens to people and he never behaves like a human being.
"As per a latest survey on Worst Companies to work with in India, Cognizant is in 4th Place. The Survey says that " COGNIZANT IS NOT A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK. THE REASON IS HEAVY WORK LOAD. ALSO THE SURVEY STATES THAT THERE WAS A WALK-IN FROM HCL TECHNOLOGIES. CAN YOU BELIEVE AROUND 50 EMPLOYEES ATTENDED THE INTERVIEW ARE FROM COGNIZANT. THE SURVEY ALSO MENTIONS THAT NO ONE IS HAPPY IN THIS COMPANY" So please DON'T JOIN BANGALORE COGNIZANT AND IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DO SO PLEASE DON'T JOIN THE GREAT PROJECT ORBITZ.
I agree with discrimination in CTS and its rivals its most common in these companies, its not tamil or telugu or Marati or hindi association. CTS managers are all mostly internal college recruits from 2000s era and they are like chickens raised inside a Farm because lack of their experience. I am a tamilian and i faced lot of problems with managers who are tamils and north indians, I think mostly they are all bad, unprofessional and has no clue about People Management.
I am not from Tamilnadu, and my manager is tamil, he is always in a favour of tamil coleuge even they do whatever they want, they talk in tamil on call and infront of non tamilinas, they dont share the knowledge.
THIS IS VERY UNPROFESSITIONAL, I AM PUTTING BEST MY EFFORT BUT INVAIN.
I totally agree.Cognizant Managers are monkeys.
I totally agree with these comments. I have heard a lot of people complaining about Cognizant. They have the worst HR and the worst people on the planet working for them. They should have done well by now if they were n't this bad. How can you do well if the best cannot be employed by you and you cannot keep good employees? Shame on Cognizant.
CTS is a worst place work. Beware of Tamil Managers... They will harrass people from other regions like anything.
i am here another guy from Cognizant the worst company i have seen in my 8 years carrier .If you are a tamilian then u can join a cognizant even though you have half knowledge like ur other tamilians.Tamil is the qualification cognizant needs nothing else.their Apprisal system trusts on Tamil qualification .the worst company i have ever seen.90% management are Tamil Kongas.They will fight with each other and they will screw you together.CTS stands for chennai technology services.
I am lucky that i have come out of this companuy soon otherwise my carrier was in bad shape.
how do we bring this to uscis attention about L1A fraud and cognizent employees applying in eb1 catagory by producing fake doc...
i agree. to add the worst, if anyone jump to cognizant from other big companies like wipro, infy etc they designate you in management level may be 5 years + exp after graduation who is unfit for management lack of very basic communication skills, half knowledged tech skill etc etc etc. Moreover people jump to cognizant for onsite to USA and eventually settle in USA. For the reason being cognizant bring the people on L visa and do EB1C quick green card processing for management. while they file perm they fabricate the responsiblities to suit the EB1c requirement.
At the same time the person who stayed longer and longer with cognizant won't get promoted that easily to management.
one more thing i like to add here, cognizant makes the world feel it is a american company but the truth Cognizant technologies is 100% indian (desi) company like other companies like infy, wipro, tcs.
manager's harassment!
I'm working for Cognizant Technology Solutions for the past 6 months. I'm handling a client called Orbitz. I'm reporting to a Manager called Deivasigamani. Last week I got a offer from Samsung India Limited. In Samsung I will be getting twice the pay of what I'm getting in Cognizant Technology Solutions. They offered me last week and asked me to join June 15th since there is a training for freshers which is commencing on the same day. But Cognizant Technology Solutions was not ready to relieve me from my duties and also they are not even ready to accept my notice pay as well. I was under a complete mental tension and stressed because of these act of my Manager. During my last 6 months of experience I had a very bad experience with my Manager Deivasigamani who was earlier working with some educational institution. He treat his team members like his students and to get a promotion we need to work like bonded labor as well as we need to be there in office all the days even Saturday and Sunday to take care of all his jobs etc. He himself admitted in front of everybody unless until if we are not satisfying him we don't get promotions or good rating in appraisal. Which leads to lot of resignations in Cognizant Orbitz team. And in India Cognizant Bangalore is having the highest rate of attrition rate due to these kind of managers. If you ask for any favor you can hear if you are not happy please resign apart from these line probably you won't hear anything. I heard our COO Francisco D'Souza is also aware of this issue and couldn't do anything about this managers. So who ever joining Cognizant Bangalore please be aware of this crap managers.
Hello,
I resigned Cognizant (Portugal) and my last working day was December 24, 2022. I was able to complete my clearance on December 29, 2022 but still not received my final pay. I've been constantly sending emails since January 1, 2023 for status follow-up but did not received any response from the Final Pay Team.
Hi Team,
My date of joining in CTS 10th oct 2022 but i my onboarding pass has not been generated. I drop multiple mail to HR but they did not responding to me
Please take action on this ASAP .
My Candidate ID : [protected]
Thanks
Jaideep Bisht
Biggest fraud in 2022
Cleared two technical and HR( 8th Jun 2019), assured offer letter within a week, Nothing till yet !
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.
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.
I have observed many vehicles on road without emission test done, but I dont have all vehicle details to complain about.
They emit too much smoke causing air pollution.
one vehicle for which I could observe too much emission:
KSRTC CORONA (KA 19 F 3358).
Please do check.
Some people are just commenting like haters. Cognizant is a good company to work for. I have been working here for over 15 years & I have seen all the good that the company has done for its employees. If you are good at what you do then you will excel in every company. Also, if some people are not happy working for a company then they should leave & not sulk. The reason they sulk is because they can’t find better jobs than what they currently have.
Be appreciative for what you have, do your job with commitment & success will follow. Good luck.
I do not agree with the slanderous post of 19th of May, 2010 by A D G, HR in cognizant had been an inspiration. Mr. Nilangshu Ghosal HR Cognizant is a gentleman and he had immensely helped me when I left the company in March 2015. I left due to personal reason, but worked for 6 years and I am grateful to the company
Cognizant is a very bad company with unethical poor middle level management and cruel HR ###.
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