Cognizant Associate Functional Consultant salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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If you swith to Cognizant, they will provide good salary compared to other service based company. They also push their associate for skill development with regular certification drive.

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The appraisal system dropped drastically in couple of years. Very minimum salary hike with high ratings.

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Stability is good. Though in the ongoing global recession, many of my co-workers had to leave projects because of project ramp down and did not get any other projects. Instead of recruiting employees from bench in other projects they are hiring more from people outside.

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Appraisal is bad. So joining with low salary does not help much in the long run, better to switch.

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Long term projects but mainly support projects. Flexible work timings On time salary and some increment every year Scope to show case your skills

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Every time you have search for the projects once your current project ramp down

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They offer competitive salary package. That’s all.

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There’s no job satisfaction or personal growth. Enough toxic people up there in the management. So don’t expect any support. It’s all about billing. Also you need to complete a ton of courses and most of them are irrelevant or obsolete, so it just eat your valuable time. Most of the time we have to spend our personal time to do all these since there will be project deadlines.