Associate Salary in Strategic & Top Management Department in India (Updated 2025)

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Everything here is average in terms of work culture, work life balance, salary and benefits, promotions, learning and development and work satisfaction. It depends on the manager under which you are working and the team you are a part of. (Auditing domain perspective)

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Work life balance in Audit is not available. Salaries and appraisals not upto the mark.

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Mumbai HQ is quite Peaceful only if your manager is from another city. Salary for intern convert into full time on Delhivery payroll only

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Micromanagement. Manager is dumb to handle team. Attrition is at peak. Forces to resign during probation without specific reason. No job security no promotions till 8 years. Cross border team leaves due to no business and silent lay offs.

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Advisor friendly environment . Management is always there for you and a wide open door for lots of opportunities by applying IJPs( internal job posting). GO AHEAD

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Salary structure should get better for future refences.

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Axtria has a good wfh policy. Not the best but somewhat better than some other company. You can work from all 5 locations in India.

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Not good salary hikes from past 2-3 years. No stocks. No perks. No learning if you are not in a good project which is rare. Biased managers and work environment.

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Salary is decent compared to industry average. Also, You don’t need to worry about the job security unless you are really bad. Work life balance depends on which line of business and what team are you working.

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Promotions are too slow compared to your peers in US or UK. A person will stay as an Analyst or Associate for years and your peer will become a Vice President or even an Executive Director within the same timelines. Your promotions are hardly based on your performance and mostly based on how much good relationship you have with your manager and how much the management has endorsed you as a brand.