C DOT Software Development Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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It's a good place to learn about core networking and end to end product life cycle. Depending on which group you are in, there are opportunities to grow.

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Salary is a major issue. Also after a certain point, the work might seem repetitive.

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It's a govt organisation. Hence even though you are on 5 yr contract, you will not be terminated unless you do some criminal activities.

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1. Salary as per govt. Mandate but no additional perks of govt. Employee. 2. Promotion extreme slow. They want people to leave so they delay promotion -- trying to save money. 3. Some teams -- no work, some teams -- extreme work and no holiday and bad management . But everyone gets same salary and same appraisals. 4. Very few teams where project is good, but there work load is very high. 5. They keep removing perks and good thing. Previously good food -- now options reduced.

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Company is working on 4g scalable environment.

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Learning is minimum. Seniors here have minimum brain. Above management is very poor. Work culture is not good. Professionalism is zero. Anytime they can ask you to come.

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Good Work Life Balance Secure Job

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Poor management Unrealistic deadlines No good tech stack No project documentation They always run in search of open source for every single project No code reviews No Low level design or high level design consideration

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Here, you get the full exposure of whatever work is assigned to you. You get insights of all the areas for your module. From development of the module to testing, integration testing, build and working in deployment environment.

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Developers get least flexibility towards work. Team Leaders, Managers have the trust of senior management but developers don't get that trust. Emergencies are created and told to developers as every day there is an emergency. No work from home and even if you get then you will be told by your reporting manager that he/she should be grateful for this honor of work from home. C-DOT now going from R & D to service sector with very less number to people to actually deal with field.