[Resolved] Cognizant Technology Solutions — Employee harassment by Human Resources

nmqual

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Nov 17, 2010

Address: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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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Aug 13, 2020

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nmqual

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Dec 18, 2010

This is not the first time i have heard o[censored]njust treatment of employees in CTS by its top management. But they they all have to have the skin of the rhino to carry on as nothing is ever wrong with their strategy

neerajnigam

from Delhi, Delhi

Feb 27, 2013

Now these things are old, Something new in picture now a days. If you go for interview by your own in Cognizent, eventhough you cleared technical rounds, HR team will not arranged your hr round and luckily if you have their no.s either they will keep you on hold by saying still we dont have requirement or they will say they dont have your data, its missing or something, please try next time. Where as if you go with some consultancy they will make sure you get an offer letter and you joined. Even counsultancys gurantee if you give interview by putting our label in resume you will clear interview.

Definetely these HR pannels getting some lucrative offers from these consultancies. If cognizent management dont believe they can check their data and compare how many are coming via consultancy refferals and how many by employee reffrels of by self applied.

MahendraG

from Delhi, Delhi

Mar 4, 2013

I would like to share my experience as well..
I had applied for PF withdrawal while leaving cognizant. for procedure I confirmed almost all the HR people there and the procedure was, from PF portal I have to fill the form and click withdraw button but after 7 months when I inquired the status of PF, PF office told me no withdrawal request has been sent from cognizant. and while contacted cognizant they told me that I have not submitted any withdrawal request . luckily I had taken all the screen shots at that time which I sent them but still they are not acknowledging that I. lot of carelessness and irresponsible behavior. let me know If I can complain any for this harassment

thanks
Mahendra
mahendra.a.[protected]@gmail.com

vijaygoodluck

from Bengaluru, Karnataka

May 13, 2013

Cogizant (UBS) is bad in handling employees concenrs, specially OTC Margin team is very poor and arrogant on this.

Tommy2005

from Hyderabad, Telangana

Sep 12, 2013

I totally agree. A bunch of are hired in HR and work in Cognizant to terminate employees ordered by the management. These 'll do whatever if they want to terminate the employees, If your manager is a big , these will be happy to work for them and appease them...and the loyal employees who work hard more than 10h a day will be given the least importance and if the manager doesn't personally like you despite you work hard and be loyal, he'll use these to terminate you. A symbol of bad company with least ethics and lowest moral values...I wonder where does Cognizant get these and poor management...who don't understand what moral value mean. .

CTS Ex- women employee

from Bengaluru, Karnataka

Feb 10, 2014

Recently this thing has happened to me too. I was mentally harassed by my manager who is in CTS from last 10 years. He was unnecessarily asking me to stretch my work hours to late night and also asking me to come on weekends to do work.

After going through this tremendous pressure when I resigned and complained about him to his manager and HR, instead of taking any action against him Senior Manager threatened me to withdraw my resignation.

Now when I was not ready to withdraaw my resignation and ready to serve my notice period they forcibly terminated my employee contract by releasing me in two days.

Cognizant as the company is having the worst management to work with.

dsh

from Gurgaon, Haryana

Apr 28, 2014

Wish I had read this before joining CTS... would have saved me an aweful lot of trouble. I resigned CTS within 4 days of joining and now they are asking me to pay 2 months salary and have termed it as Job Abandonment...

sashwati

from Pune, Maharashtra

Oct 27, 2014

Being a cognizant employee, I know pretty well how the HR behaves with its employee. They even force you at their best to do according to their wish. So its really pathetic to deal with them.

exemployee24

from Pune, Maharashtra

Feb 5, 2015

I am shocked to know that I am not the only one to have had such a bad experience with Cognizant Technology Solutions. I had requested for a transfer to my hometown for nearly 5 months. On the same ground I had resigned and served 25 days of notice period. On 27 Oct 2015, I had a discussion with my manager that he will be shortly arranging my transfer based on the approval from client. Client? I wondered, whether I was their employee or that of the clients. Also that day I submitted my access card and Id to my team leader after informing my manager that I no longer with to continue with them. Even though I served 25 days of my notice period, they sent me Job abandonment mail and treated it as if I did not serve any notice period at all. It adversely affected my career as no company was willing to hire me after knowing about this incident and wanted a clear relieving letter. Instead of giving me a relieving letter, what they did was to harass me by sending a series of mails demanding 2 months of salary from me along with the loss of I-card and if I failed, they would initiate a legal proceeding against me. Am I a criminal if I wanted to be with my family members and take care of my ageing father? Was it my fault if they could not convince their client for a transfer? Why should I pay for their faulty management. Very bad company and the worst experience of my life. I hate CTS.

Kssowmya's reply, Jun 23, 2021

Is your case resolved? Did u get your relieving letter ?
Pls ket me know

Rick miller

from Surat, Gujarat

Jun 4, 2015

I have 8 years of experience. HR suddenly called me last week and asked me to resign. he called me to differenct cts location every day to put pressure on me otherwise they threatened me to terminate. they didn't give 2 months notice period as per the company policy.

Tspr

from Hyderabad, Telangana

Jun 30, 2015

I am PAT in CTS daily two of my batch mates passing comments on me I'm really depressed Im thinking to give complaints on them can anyone tell me to whom we have to tell about this matter

Dēvata R

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Sep 13, 2015

Hi All,

Please post in this link, We are consolidating all the worst things happened in and around the cognizant.

https://www.facebook.com/trueCognitive

I have posted few news already. Let us share all the news and spread the news until they stopped all the harassment..

Dēvata R

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Sep 13, 2015

Hi All.

Please post to this page..
https://www.facebook.com/trueCognitive

I have already mentioned some news about the past harassment and torture.
Please upload it then only they will aware of the history..

Feva

from Bengaluru, Karnataka

Nov 26, 2015

Cognizant is the worst company that I have ever worked with. Please don't join Cognizant.

chinnasree786

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Dec 16, 2015

its only the people who make the difference, they are selfish and do only to their favorites.

but the company should get involve to find these people and get removed.

frustrated_ex

from Bengaluru, Karnataka

Dec 17, 2015

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 thought had claim on me 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. ?

Rina Mendez

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Feb 19, 2016

I have a bad experience with HR and GWFM. I asked release from current project and got released. Now the GWFM guy and HR is trying to push me to one Critical project. I have mentioned my constraints to HR and GWFM about joining that critical project. Yet they dont understand. HR is threatening me to join. I feel like im being pushed and i have no option. Please Can anyone suggest me how to handle this situation properly..?

Pro Gmat

from Karnal, Haryana

Dec 16, 2016

On bench since last few weeks. No calls from projects. HR is asking to go and look on your own. Are you kidding. Is it my responsibility to look for projects or yours.
Now they jave asked me to resign as I have crossed the bench time and I am not into any project. Look the way they want to reduce the bench strength. No proper system to track skills. Moreover I've H1B. Still being forced to resign.