AstraZeneca Data Engineer salaries in Chennai (Updated 2025)

Likes

1. Good work life balance 2. Good prospects for learning 3. Good tech stack 4. Support for continuous education 5. Good hike when compared with service based companies (though not right to compare captives with service based)

Dislikes

1. Should review the market pay standards and should work better on it. 2. Should work better on the retention plans for those who have decided to leave the org 3. Layoffs in 2021 created uncertainties

Likes

...ch is driven by leaders who play political games and take employees for granted. Terrible work life balance and compensation is no where near industry standards. Learning and development is presented only as online courses and you may not be able to work on new technologies in real time.

Dislikes

Work life balance and managerial hierarchy has ruined the company and its reputation.

Likes

Proud about the fact that we are contributing to the betterment of the society by manufacturing Covid vaccine to end this pandemic. Job security is good and you get to learn many new things. Initially lot of freebies were offered, but now, I feel they have reduced. Free transport, lunch are bonus points

Dislikes

Salary normalization is quite high and we need to bargain hard to get the expected salary. Multiple projects needs to be handled at the same time, resulting in average work-life balance

Likes

Shift allowance and medical benefits

Dislikes

...and making employees to adopt services company based culture which is very poor. Cost cutting and cross training and shared resources model and training freshers with out experts

Likes

Everything is best in AstraZeneca like work culture company norms way of approach very good in this organisation

Dislikes

There is politics and the salary year end appraisal is not met with expectations in this organisation and the everywhere too