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System Engineer Hardware in
Japan
Engineering & Manufacturing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 12 May 2021
Likes
Job security is very high and stable. Onsite oppertunities are also high.
If you are looking to settle down irrespective of compensation and benefits, TCS is right company. Work life balance is so good.
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
I have 6 years of experience and my CTC is 4.8 lakh which is just more than begginer. Amount of hikes are very low and promotions are mainly project based. For who seek good salary increase annually, TCS might be disappointing.
Salary - Bad
Promotions - Poor
Work Details
Work life balance is perfect
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
System Engineer Hardware in
Kochi
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
4.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 16 Jan 2025
Likes
The overall experience is good, but need to get more exposure if are in a big team otherwise your notable works are not even considered on appraisals/promotions.
Salary - Good
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Appraisal is not prior based on performance alone.
Also not a good company if you are joining as a fresher, I would suggest if you are joining after 2-3 companies.
Peers are helpful as all are suffering from one thing underpaid and flexible time, clean campus.
Job security - Good
Dislikes
Management is worse. Theur managers are that much skilled they put you in testing team if you are a developer. I heard if you get D band then your CTC will be reduced with some percentage. RMG is pathetic, thier only intention is to insult people and forced people to make them resign
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Top TCS System Engineer Hardware Interview Questions
As someone with over three years of experience at TCS, what I really value is the diverse opportunities the company offers to grow professionally. The exposure to various projects, including my experience in system engineering and development, has allowed me to develop a range of skills, from technical expertise to client communication.
I also appreciate TCS's global presence and the chance to collaborate with teams across different locations, which has enriched my learning and adaptability. The recognition programs, such as the "Star of the Month" and "Service and Commitment" awards I received, make me feel valued for my contributions.
Lastly, I admire how TCS fosters continuous learning through internal resources and external training programs, which aligns well with my goal of upskilling in data science and analytics. These aspects make TCS a place where I’ve grown significantly, both professionally and personally....Read More
Job security - Excellent
Dislikes
While I’ve gained valuable experience and growth opportunities at TCS, there are certain aspects that I feel could be improved. One challenge has been the limited flexibility in transitioning to roles or projects that align with my evolving career aspirations. Despite the company’s vast opportunities, the internal mobility process can sometimes be lengthy or restrictive.
Additionally, while TCS offers great resources and support, the work-life balance can be challenging at times, especially when managing personal commitments alongside work. For example, my current health situation has made me realize the importance of flexible arrangements like work-from-home options, which are sometimes limited based on project needs.
Overall, while these are areas of improvement, they don’t overshadow the learning and growth I’ve experienced here. I see them as opportunities for the organization to become even better....Read More
Salary - Poor
Work-life balance - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Gandhinagar
Full Time
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Software Development Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
2.0
Skill development
2.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 06 Nov 2024
Likes
Job security but salary not fixed as it is based on band
Dislikes
Very poor company culture, no work satisfaction. Micro management on every step of the way.
Managers misuse appraisal & band rights to micromanage employee
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Poor
Job security - Poor
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
System Engineer Hardware in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
3.0
Promotions
5.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 02 Nov 2024
Likes
Flexible timings with respect to projects. Learning platforms are available which can be utilized for growth.
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
Salary hike is low. Promotion is hard to come by.
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 24 Oct 2024
Likes
Working in TCS has a lot of benefits like work life balance, job security, opportunity for Learning and growth, company culture is also very good and feels the work we are doing is having impact.overall, it is very good company to work and learn.
Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
The only problem is with the salary and appraisal which is not good. The appraisal totally depends on manager and hr and salary hike is also very low otherwise it is a very good company to work and learn.
Salary - Poor
Promotions - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
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System Engineer Hardware in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 19 Sep 2024
Likes
Except work life balance nothing is useful
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
No hikes.
Even if you get good rating from manager/project but bands will be distribute like lottery system and if you get D band then your salary will get decreased.
No skills.
No work .
Long time on bench.
If you're a fresher please don't join this company. This company is only for the experienced who has more than 15 years.
Worst RMG, Hr management.
No free cab or bus facility.
I worked in one of the product units of TCS as a Developer. It was a mixed experience.
The good -
Job security
Very good manager
Very few days when I had to stretch beyond the regular working hours
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Team allocation is random
Lack of upskilling opportunities
Felt stagnated - was doing the same thing for too long
Did not get to work much on the latest technologies
Work satisfaction - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
System Engineer Hardware in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
·
DevOps Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
4.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 30 Aug 2024
Likes
I think TCS is only for old age politicians no young people can get better opportunity there and you won't get projects based on your technical skills. The so called political managers don't listen to your aspirations and dreams they only need you in those worst rod support projects where there is no carrier growth. I suggest not tojoin TCS for freshers who need to get better experience in tech stack....Read More
Skill development - Good
Job security - Good
Dislikes
Consider my comments above in likes section because I don't have any likes about TCS.
Salary - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Kolkata
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
2.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 24 Aug 2024
Likes
Job security and medical benefits are the only benefits of TCS. Also to add onsite opportunity.
Job security - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
1. Ridiculous attitude of not hiring ex-tcs employees. I was contacted 5 times by TCS HRs over the past 2 years. After provind all details, 3 times interview was not schedule and they didn't give any reason and 2 times even after interviews were scheduled, panelists didn't attend. After multiple tries to contact hrs, one of them called and said we are not hiring ex tcs employees. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2. Salary increment.
3. Promotion increment.
4. Ordering employees to come 5 days in office and spend 9 hours, even after the hybrid mode prooved much beneficial in every respect....Read More
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Poor
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
System Engineer Hardware in
New Delhi
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 23 Aug 2024
Likes
Great work life balance. Good opportunity to learn new skills
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
No appraisal at all. Poor hikes. Seniors don't promote active skill development and application of new skills. Company stuck with old technologies.
Promotions - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Pune
Full Time
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Banking Operations Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
3.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 25 Jul 2024
Likes
Nothing at all. Support projects are scary in TCS.
Dislikes
No one should join support project. They are so horrible like 24*7 and no work life balance. For all your efforts your get little penny.
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work days: Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Ahmedabad
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
4.0
Work satisfaction
5.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 20 Jul 2024
Likes
Work-life balance maintained
Great job security
Lot of benefits for employees
Job security - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
Salary break up
Good projects to learn
Not a high growth company
Promotions are slow
Promotions - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Chennai
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
3.0
Company culture
2.0
Work-life balance
posted on 15 Jul 2024
Likes
TCS have great job security and learning. If your are experienced join tcs else get experience and join in case of good salary hike.
Job security - Excellent
Dislikes
Salary hike its depend not on work based only on exam based. Where people won't get time to prepare or take those exam. And those exam its not fully legitimate. In office mid of city have drawback like zero transportation, poor canteen and vechicle parking issues. In case of my project its good to learn and grow but have bad work life balance because of poor metric in time calculation for tasks.
Promotions - Poor
Work-life balance - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
·
Quality Assurance and Testing Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Salary
4.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
3.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
4.0
Work-life balance
posted on 11 Jul 2024
Likes
Its a great opportunity working with TCS but still i recommend it for experienced people rather than freshers because low scope of growth in words of salaries and profile.
Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good
Dislikes
There's few improvements should be necessary to get better like hike percentage, early promotion, also ODC feasibility.
Promotions - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Mumbai
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Salary
3.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
2.0
Company culture
2.0
Work-life balance
posted on 20 Jun 2024
Likes
Mostly about job security. If you are lucky, you will get great teammates and amazing clients who are always there for you.
Job security - Excellent
Dislikes
If you are looking to join as a fresher, I'd say don't. There's no promotion/appraisal, upper management is the worst, very few projects where you'll learn something, mostly it's all monitoring and manual testing.
Salary - Poor
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Poor
Company culture - Poor
Work-life balance - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
System Engineer Hardware in
Mumbai
Full Time
·
IT Infrastructure Services Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Salary
2.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
2.0
Promotions
2.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
3.0
Work-life balance
posted on 18 Jun 2024
Likes
Its job security and work culture is kind of average to good. Atleast for my project. I think tcs is good if you join at good salary at higher management positions. One of the best thing is that if your project has onsite opportunities and you are really working good then they will definitely consider you for onsite.
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Dislikes
Salary and also hikes. You can’t survive just on job security you need good salary inhand.
Salary - Poor
Skill development - Poor
Promotions - Poor
Work satisfaction - Poor
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
System Engineer Hardware in
Bangalore / Bengaluru
Full Time
·
Software Development Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
5.0
Skill development
5.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
4.0
Company culture
5.0
Work-life balance
posted on 13 Jun 2024
Likes
Work life balance, life dominates over work.
All chill enviornment. Neither pressure nor the growth.
Pleasure seeking managers - so here you have got one formula for promotions.
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent
Dislikes
You will get peanuts.
Your number of peanuts depends on your office availability.
Your appraisal money will let you have leverage of 2 extra vadapavs in a month.
Salary - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City, Travel Within Country, International Travel.
System Engineer Hardware in
Hyderabad / Secunderabad
Full Time
·
Business Intelligence & Analytics Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Salary
1.0
Skill development
1.0
Job security
1.0
Promotions
1.0
Work satisfaction
1.0
Company culture
1.0
Work-life balance
posted on 12 Jun 2024
Likes
1. Nothing here is worth anymore.
2. Unless you have any other offer and financially vulnerable, chose this last option.
3. Never in your career make a conscious choice to join here.
4. Be prepared to be mentally strong to deal with pretending to be people.
Dislikes
4. Forceful project mapping
5. Micromanagement
6. Unprofessional and unethical HRs and RMGs
7. Highly manipulative people, you'll feel like you are learning here dark side of human nature more than the work.
Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Friday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
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How is TCS to work for?
TCS is rated 3.5 out of 5, based on 1.1k reviews by employees on AmbitionBox.
TCS is known for Job security which is rated at the top and given a rating of 4.5. However, Career growth is rated the lowest at 2.4 and can be improved. To know first hand how it is like to work at TCS read detailed reviews based on various job profiles, departments and locations in the reviews section.
How is the salary at TCS?
According to AmbitionBox ratings, TCS employees rate its salary and benefits as 2.5 out of 5. You can know more about TCS Salaries at AmbitionBox
How is the work culture at TCS?
Work culture is rated 3.4 at TCS by 1.1k employees. While job security is rated 4.5 and work-life balance is rated 3.8 at TCS. Read detailed reviews by employees of TCS on AmbitionBox.
Is work from home available in TCS?
According to AmbitionBox, 1% TCS employees work from home permanently, 6% work from office 3 days/week (based on 97 AmbitionBox reviews in last 6 months).