Cognizant Associate salaries in Engineering - Hardware & Networks in India (Updated 2025)

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...ht difficulties to get the KT. More over the TDS deduction is a hectic process. A massive chunk will be deducted as TDS from the salary on top of other deduction like PF and professional tax. Which is very discouraging.

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Nothing as such.

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They usually find ways to eat employees variable pay. Official working hours is 10.Rating system is pathetic.Some guy is sitting in either Bangalore or Chennai will decide your appraisal and rating who has no idea about employees skill and working domain. One can check working force attrition rate.

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Work life balance is good. There is no pressure on employees.

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They will not pay correctly when your in notice period. They will cut the salary without any reason.if you ask for the reason. They will tell blaaa...bla....no proper reason will provide

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Work-life balance (Although it depends on project to project) Good work culture and friendly team.

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1. Salary 2. Scope to learn and apply it in project. CTS provides access to Udemy where we can enroll into courses as much as we want, but our team faced lack of opportunities to apply them in project.

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It is good for beginners, avoid going into support project as they will make you work even on your sick days off. And HR wont help in this case either.

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..., you will have to look for another one on your own , else they will remove you. Used to pay fairly but is now as good as literally any other company like TCS, Infosys in terms of both work quality and compensation. No real way to move vertically based on merit unlike TCS.