Senior Principal Engineer Salary in Emerging Technologies in India

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Comparing it with other services companies, the pay scale is competitive.There are few sub groups, but i will talk about wireless. 80% of the projects are about maintenance with good exposure and ample onsite opportunities(not all projects though). Subsidized cabs, free lunches and snacks, light atmosphere.

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HSC has a lot of 10+ years experience guys doing menial tasks and hence have a top-heavy structure. Depending upon which manager you get, it can be wither a good organic learning experience or a nightmare. Personally had a bad experience with manager who was technically solid but a 10x worse people's manager. I eventually left the company because of him. Poor onsite compensation. Most of the business from one client only. The onsite peers are generally a waste of time and very arrogant. Many offshore managers, many not all, like to build dependencies and don't provide any knowledge transfer. This can be a horrifying experience as they don't give you enough briefing before they put you to work and later use that against you. This happens because a 10+ word experience guy has to appear as important even if all he does is minor bug fixes and logs analysis.

Likes

Good pay and incentives, provide travel and food allowance for local client side, good infra, good leave policy sufficient for establishing a good work life balance

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At times there is scarcity of work for particular tech stack, then there occurs a possibility that you have to compensate on whatever work come across you, but this experience is quite generic throughout service based companies

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Compensation Promotion Work life balance is ok

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Yearly incentive on T4 grade that is inckusive for CTC.

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Hughes Systique is better in term of compensation in comparison with most of service based companies. Also they have very good client and good projects.

Dislikes

Very few options were there for Inhouse Java projects that time not sure about what's the situation now. They have a strict policy according to which you can't work with any clients till next two years after in any way (Full time/ contract/ Third party payroll ) once you leave Hughes. Also they don't allow your full time conversion to client.