Toxic culture with zero transparency and accountability - Anonymous employee Cognite Employee Review

1.0
3 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ha! That's a good one.

Cons

Can you say "total eclipse"? That most accurately describes the amount of pure darkness (i.e. lack of transparency, accountability, honesty, decency and scruples) within this company. If you want to move your whole life across the country to work in a desert utterly devoid of values and professionalism, an organization that gives you their word and then breaks it at the drop of a hat without the slightest hint of remorse, then Cognite is your huckleberry. This is a place that apparently has no issues with partnering with certain third-parties like background check vendors that violate the privacy and undermine the integrity of their employees, because Cognite's management does exactly the same thing. Some companies enjoy treating their in-house people like chopped liver; Cognite would rather not wait that long. Communication is non-existent and 100% dishonest at the same time. Bad faith business is the order of the day. There's an old saying which says something to the effect that "when you are halfway done with a deal, you still have 99% to close". If you are misfortunate enough to receive and accept any offer of employment from Cognite, take heed: you're not even 0.000001% closer to working one second there. A rotting fish stinks from the head down. One star review = NO STAR REVIEW.

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Pros

The product is great, the passion is real, and the culture is positive and supportive.

Cons

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2.0
10 Dec 2025
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Pros

They do have lovely people working for them. Some very knowledgeable professionals work for Cognite, and just overall cool people to be around. Also, the products have a great deal of potential, particularly in the AI space.

Cons

I've never seen a group of executives making such unnecessary mistakes and being so dishonest with their people. Employees in the Austin office were told they could keep their jobs and work remotely after that office was shut down, and of course, it wasn't true. Granted, many of us thought it wasn't true, but the amount of effort that went into trying to convince them their jobs were safe when they weren't... just felt slimy. I've also not encountered a company that is so desperate to be known as "AI native". There were leaders bringing AI agents into meetings with customers and trying to code up software on the spot. There was no consideration to data privacy, no intelligence scoping, no proper procedure, just a couple of execs feeding their customers' data into a third-party chat app and hoping it would spit out a solution. Yikes.

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