Associate Director Delivery Salary in Chennai

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...rn everything. Leadership is passionate of new technology and client centricity. Pays competitive salary benefits may not be high at times but sustainable for long, rewarding association. Will recommend people to experience Cognizant.

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If you remain too good on a domain, likely you will get trapped into it and not allowed to learn horizontal skills. So keeping a balance and relationship to horizontal people are important in any large project centric organization.

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good for freshers and people in junior roles as there are ample opportunities to learn, lot of options to upskill, cross skill but mostly should be prepared to spend their own time, paid time off and carry forwarding unused time off policy, office location, mentoring and support of management toward career growth, rare but there are chances of going onshore, well respected brand name and value in industry, overall flexible in terms of working hours, clients from various industries and global, etc. Additional benefits from manager level and above. Good ML benefits and support afterwards as well if needed. Lot of and long-standing clients.

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Not much transparency when it comes to pay or merit changes or bonus distribution, bench or exit policy. Lot of managers / senior managers may not have none to handful direct reportees. So, no clearly defined IC vs Management tracks. No paid volunteering time, education scholarship, stock options, etc in India and many other locations but some benefits are available by location in USA, Japan, Europe, etc. No 360 deg feedback given or taken under org reporting structure, lack of collaboration and clarity between onshore and offshore sales teams. Not a good pay master, in general but could depend on part of the org you are in, as there is no uniformity. A person at level X may get same pay as a person in level X-1 or even X-2 in diff part of the org, in same division, for similar or comparable skills and experience. Tussle among peers at senior management level for getting same business, etc. No job security and no internal projects or products to fall back to if possible and needed. Not a good duration for paid bench time. Long 60 days' notice period, while the company itself rarely considers candidates for interviews, with such long NP, given the uncertainty in joining. 9-hour workday, which is unfortunately becoming common in industry from 8 hours. Add 2-3 hours of commute time and breaks, and it's a good 13-hour day. NO working remote policy.

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Culture, work life balance, quality of work and new opportunities, multiple internal forums for continuous learning

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Nothing much to add here, except the fact that compensation can be a little better but still better than most good companies.

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Compensation, culture and work life balance. Multiple avenues for career growth

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Formal skill development is only key point where its lacking.