TCS System Engineer Kolkata Reviews

Likes

Job security, skill developement

Dislikes

Salary, Promotion and appraisals are not upto the mark.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good work-life balance, less pay - everyone in the team is leaving or planning to leave.

Dislikes

Salary/appraisal

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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I worked as java developer in pure development project for 3.5 years in TCS just to set the context right. Job security (Not project security). Health Insurance is good but deducted from your salary and not paid by employer and let me tell you why people generally say tcs' health insurance is good. Its because there is no copay and even if there are expenses beyond your policy limits, sometimes they are reimbused on a case by case basis if you put a request but its rare event. • Second thing is that they give you opd benefits of 6000 per year which no company gives, which is why employees generally give good feedback on health insurance. • Lots of platforms for learning. No platform or opportunity to apply them on job😁...Read More

Dislikes

• Poor base salary. • TCS digital gives you more salary but you do the same work. • Poor appraisals with lot of politics. Politics in giving appreciciations and awards. • Work pressure depends on you. If you are good at what you do, your life is hell due to overwork and if you are bad or avg at your work, your life is also hell due to loss of confidence is performing well in life😃. • No matter what you do, you will either get 4% hike(C grade)[Rare case], 6% hike (B grade) [ Always], 8% hike(A grade)[Rare case]. And inflation is 8% so effectively your salary is decreasing🙂. • on promotio<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">n you can get 11% hike , but dont be happy. Any percent on</mark> peanuts is peanuts.🙂. • HR is just there to make rangolis and get you fill your surveys, compliance, courses etc on time. They are just there to spread fear or give fake promises. • your holiday is not your holiday, your weekends are not your weekends. And if you disobey for anything, No matter what you do for company 364 days, Rest 1 day of reason is enough to make your life hell with transfer to other project, poorest appraisal, put you on bench. They put you in a trap of learning by assigning you random learning targets on technology or functional courses you dont use nor will apply at job so that you spend most of your time in and outside of work in this, eventually taking away your freedom to reflect on your life and growth. Switch as soon as possible, tcs digital is lollypop, waiting for promotion is stupidity. The best time to switch is now. Dont worry about job security, its a non sense concept....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good work culture,Job security, cooperative teammates

Dislikes

Salary Increment is less.

Work Details

Good

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

All Good except Salary and Promotion.

Dislikes

Salary and Promotion

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Job security is very good and a good work-life balance

Dislikes

The Appraisal system is not good

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Job security..

Dislikes

Low hike, delayed promotion, no work life balance

Likes

After working for 3½ years I am in a position to comment on the good and not so good aspects of working in TCS. 1. Working in such a big MNC means one's general work experience can vary from project to project as timings, work ease, technologies and everything else related to one's work will differ. 2. I was lucky to get opportunityin Financial Services IOU (Insurance domain). I have been involved in TCS BANCS which is a company product with out clients being top insurance providers across the world. Got a great team with good leaders who guided me to learn and develop my skills. 3. I am also happy that TCS provided Digital Capability Assessment, which was a combination of exams and interviews to prove one's merit and thus increase one's compensation. Although the assessments had their flaws with system failure during coding assessments too common and very inconsistent interview patterns across the board, it was still an opportunity for junior employees to increase their compensation benefits. 4. The health insurance provided by TCS in association with New India Insurance with Medibuddy acting as 3rd party is one of the best offered in corporate world. 5. Job security is really paramount here. If you do your job and have strived to become an important part of your respective work, you needn't fear about losing job ever. 6. Consistent pay under every circumstances. Even during COVID infected world and uncertain circumstances, we always received our salary on time. TCS had announced that there would be no lay offs whatsoever due to covid. Only variable pay for senior employees had been suspended for 2 quarters. And our yearly appraisals for 2020-21 were delayed from April to September. 7. TCS rolled out its SBWS model of Work From Home, the earliest in April 2020 and have continued it till date (writing in December 2021). There have been no compulsions yet, to return to work from office....Read More

Dislikes

Well there are yet some not so good points too. 1. The starting salary of a on campus freshman is not much. TCS has maintained the starting salary at the same amount for a decade now, in spite of the value of Rupee falling terribly in that period and inflation consistently rising. Meaning 3.3LPA in 2010 is not worth the same now in 2021. 2. While joining the company, like many other IT giants, the technology you are mapped into and the project you get into are random and may not always depend on your preferred technology or the programming language you are versed in. 3. Although there's initial scope of learning and developing your skills, after few years it stops since you have learnt everything there is to. So you become stagnant with lack of up skilling opportunities from mid level. 4<mark style="background-color: #fff5e4;">. Your career doesn't grow consistently and appraisal process isn't fool proof</mark>. Even though you have performed exemplary and your team and leaders mark you highest, project hierarchy may prevent appraising you well. This also means one doesn't get promoted in right times. It affects your career since you aren't getting your dues. 5. Work satisfaction and balance totally depends on the project and the people working there. 6. Less opportunities to learn new technologies and explore new things and get outside your working technology and domain. 7. If you are consistently doing wings1, wings2 exams you may get extra compensation, but it's almost not possible to do your job work and complete these exams simultaneously. Continuous project work prevents your from devoting any extra time to extra stuffs. 8. Initial training to new joinees is almost non existent except the training centre at Trivandrum....Read More

Work Details

Personally I have had enriching experience over 3½ years. I got good training during my training at Trivandrum and have learnt everything else on the job. Devloped my skills and became a complete professional.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.