Cogoport "Senior Management" Reviews

Likes

The variety of projects available to work on.

Dislikes

1)Bad Company culture associated with constant policy changes and pay cuts even after receiving the best rating. 2) Micromanagement and incompetent upper management with very little experience in the industry(Especially the Indian COO) 3) Delayed salaries for 15 to 20 days and no F&F Settlement for over a quarter. 4) Employee churn rate of 90% as use the hire and fire policy where they hire 100 retain 20 people and fire 80 people. This cycle goes on every 3 months....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Absolutely nothing other than Very nice Seniors out there.

Dislikes

Very bad culture in the office, full of politics. They can fire you anytime they want, specially they have a firing session every time they have to give joining or retention bonus to employees. Engineering managers (except few) are just sycophant. They don't care about your career at all, recently they literally fired new joinees on 5 minutes notice and giving no assistance instead they literally humiliate you. The biggest crap in the company is the CEO(both) and the COO. They are literally in human. Time to time they take session and literally abuse employees and threaten to terminate their job. Also they cut the money from base salary which is already a crime but they don't fear because no one goes to police as they threaten to give termination letter with bad reviews so no employee wants their career to get ruined. Also they lock their employees inside almost jail only as they have a policy that even if you are 2 minutes late they won't allow you inside and if you get inside they won't allow you to go before you atleast complete 10 hours. This is nothing because they keep track of your working hours and though it is 10 hours, but if your monthly average is below 13-14 hours daily you will be terminated immediately Also they have week off on saturday and sunday but they will call you every saturday forcefully and sometimes on sunday as well....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Unfortunately there is not a single thing I liked about this company. I really hope there could be anything that I can say good things about but there are none.

Dislikes

Working for this company has been an absolute nightmare. From the moment I joined the team, it became painfully clear that employee well-being and job satisfaction were at the bottom of their priority list. Management is completely out of touch with the realities on the ground. They make decisions without consulting the employees who actually do the work, and these decisions often lead to chaos, frustration, and even layoffs. The work environment is toxic, to say the least. There's no sense of camaraderie or teamwork. Everyone is out for themselves, and the constant office politics make it nearly impossible to get anything done efficiently. Benefits and compensation are laughable. I've seen better pay and perks at fast-food restaurants. It's insulting to see the company's executives living lavishly while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. Worst of all, there's no room for growth or development. The company seems content to keep employees stuck in dead-end positions with no opportunities for advancement. It's demoralizing and disheartening. In summary, this company is a sinking ship, and I'm jumping off before it drags me down any further. It's a soul-sucking, demoralizing place to work, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

In my time here. I;ve learned two important things: time management and task organization. Being responsible means developing these skills, which aren;'t usually taught but come with job experience. I;ve been fortunate to receive support and guidance from my seniors, which has made me competent and reliable. I;m thankful to them for helping me become the best vision of myself and nurturing these qualities in me....Read More

Dislikes

If you concentrate on self-improvement, you might not notice any cons like I do.

Likes

Nothing , there is absolutely nothing to like about.

Dislikes

1) Place is like a jail. Even jails are a better place than this 2) Cannot go outside once you are inside the building. 3) Compulsory 9hrs+ timings. 4) 0% Job security. 5) 0% help from management 6) All policies fixated on cutting salaries of employees. 7) Ridiculous policy of byod(buy your own device) , gets pressurized to buy Macs on terms that it will be reimbursed over period of 2 years upto 75% , but fires employees within 1-2 month of joining. 8) HR department totally not supportive. Hrs pressurize to work more than 12 hrs. 9) Alternate Saturday working. 10) No fixed teams , always migrating people from one team to another. 11) Even Guards tend to show so much attitude like passing disrespectful remarks and forcing to leave cafeteria if stayed a minute longer there. And when you reach out to HR regarding this , HR like a parrot starts scolding you for not coming early. 12) No sense of team culture . Toxicity at its max. 13) Salaries never given on time. Salaried gets credited after 10-15 days of next month. 14) Leaves are hardly approved. 15) If by chance you got late for work for even a minute , Guard will give you two options either apply for leave or go home. 16) Excessive mental torture. 17) Firing for no rational reasons. For eg. Some are fired for less worked hours even though there working hours are 10 hr/day , or sometimes manipulating that the person is unfit for the job. 18) One best thing is they fire indiscriminately, whether you are a senior member , whether you are a fresher , whether you are there for more than 2 years , whether you are here for , like recently , 19 days , whether you are the top contributor , or whether you are the least performer. You will be damn fired for no reason at all. 19) Salary cuts on a monthly basis is a new fashion here. People hired from prestigious colleges by luring attractive packages but after a month cutting 15% then 25% then 75% unnecessarily by stating not satisfactory with you performance. 20) No work life balance. 21) No Severance package or notice period or anything after firing employees. The procedure happens in a 5 minute fashion and a guard will arrive at your desk to throw you out instantly....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Likes

They can just let you go anytime, letting you breath after a horrendous experience.

Dislikes

This is a long list and I hope you buckle your seat belt for this one. 1. All the existing employees think they are extremely smart and masters of the universe. Especially the CTO (current COO of the company), he thinks everybody else is the problem (or as he puts it, human problems) except for him. He has a penchant for shutting down companies because of his "incredible leadership skills" and Cogoport will be his next crown jewel. 2. Do you want your full salary to be paid on a regular basis? If the answer is hell naww, then Cogoport is hell yeah! They will deduct your salary on a monthly ratings basis which you will receive based on whether manager likes you or not (although they keep saying it's objective). A rating of <3 will get you 20% salary cut in the 1st month, 50% cut in 2nd and 75% in 3rd. Now isn't that goddamn wonderful? Also, you will get your salary in the middle of the month, and not like noob companies paying in the first week itself. 3<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. Top management has zero empathy, respect and courtesy towards employees and you will be made to feel like an idiot even after graduating from a Tier 1 college in India</mark>. So if you like to be insulted, Cogoport is your destination. 4. High work pressure is fine, but there is unnecessary pressure beyond that. The CTO checks working hours of every employee and points it out in front of everyone to ridicule you. According to him, productivity is directly proportional to working hours, and the more you stay in office even if you do nothing, the better worker you are. The CTO will randomly call you at his whim and fancy and insult you in front of everyone (sometimes behind your back). 5. Do you aspire to go to jail? Then Cogoport is your ideal workplace! You won't be allowed to leave the premises before the stipulated time of 6:30pm. You can't even leave your floor at designated times of the day and have to please the security guard in order to earn that right to movement. 6. If you don't want to do anything in your life and still earn money, being an HR rep at Cogoport is the way to go. You have no power, no responsibility, no decision making headache. Everything is dictated by the honourable CEO and COO, and HR just parrots it back to you, most of the time leaving huge space for ambiguity which results in confusion and frustration. 7. Why work peacefully and create a safe space for creativity to flourish when you can always feel threatened with being laid off for no damn reason. And then you WILL be laid off for a made up reason (could range from lower than average working hours even if it's beyond the manadated hours, or poor performance, or disinterest, or taking "too many" leaves), depending on whatever can be used against you. 8. Oh and do you want the company to invest in hardware like laptops? That ain't happening, suqqa! With Cogoport's "robust" BYOD policy, you can bring your own device, or be fooled to buy a high end MacBook from the company's vendor and be reimbursed just 75% of the amount of a basic model, in 24 MONTHS! WOOHOOO!...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Likes

Very hard to think a good point.

Dislikes

1. Zero work ethics of upper management 2. Its a jail (gate open at 6:30, no one leaves before that) 3. No guidance for any roles 4. Bulk hiring and bulk firing is a common practice there. 5. Salary never on time. (Sometimes 20days delay) 6. They put the salary on hold if they think you will leave the company soon, so they don't give you salary and when you leave they don't have to give you fnf. 7. Hire from IIT and IIMs and ruin their careers by firing after 1months (they say you aren't fit for the company to all 200 employees) 8. They want results in 1 month without training. 9. No proper channels to complain for anything. HRs are just puppet for the upper management. 10. They will stop giving you work without any reason and fire you without any prior notice. I will suggest everyone not to join this place....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Once you start working with Cogoport, you will realise how good your previous employers were and what all can go wrong with a firm.

Dislikes

Cogoport is a classic example of what companies and leadership shouldn't do. Whatever you can think that potential employer shouldn't have, Cogoport has it, be it, no employee training/knowledge transfer, unethical business practices, employee harassment, fixed salary deduction, zero job security, high CTC on paper which you can never take home and the list goes on & on.....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

I got support from the management whenever I required it. This is something very special about the company that you will never feel inferior. You'll always get respected and recognized for your hard work.

Dislikes

Due to their busy schedule, seniors may take a little time to answer. It's not a con though.

Likes

The problem statements were interesting.

Dislikes

-A visionless management that functions on impulses -Threats of layoffs as a means to improve productivity -Glorifying poor work culture such as attending the office on Sundays, staying back for long hours for no reason -Mismatched expectations/misalignment from the initial JDs -Lack of two way communication between managers and founders/upper management</mark>...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

This place values professional ethics. Everyone is treated respectfully. Acknowledgement and appreciation is offered to top performers. Management consistently motivates and encourages us to improve. These are some of aspects that I truly appreciate about this place.

Dislikes

Totally nothing! There are no cons in this workplace...