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0 - 3 years exp. · Chennai (965 salaries)
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₹1.4 L/yr - ₹5 L/yr

0 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (4.7k salaries)
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₹1.8 L/yr - ₹8.1 L/yr

20 job openings
2 - 9 years exp. · Chennai (2.7k salaries)
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₹5.6 L/yr - ₹17.3 L/yr

249 job openings
0 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (2.1k salaries)
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₹2.1 L/yr - ₹10.5 L/yr

8 - 20 years exp. · Chennai (2.1k salaries)
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₹12 L/yr - ₹40.2 L/yr

124 job openings
0 - 4 years exp. · Chennai (1.5k salaries)
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₹1 L/yr - ₹4.5 L/yr

22 job openings
0 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (1.1k salaries)
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₹2 L/yr - ₹11 L/yr

0 - 2 years exp. · Chennai (1k salaries)
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₹2.6 L/yr - ₹5 L/yr

1 - 13 years exp. · Chennai (974 salaries)
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₹2 L/yr - ₹9.8 L/yr

2 job openings
2 - 12 years exp. · Chennai (949 salaries)
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₹4.8 L/yr - ₹20 L/yr

5 job openings
2 - 13 years exp. · Chennai (857 salaries)
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₹4.7 L/yr - ₹15 L/yr

3 - 13 years exp. · Chennai (842 salaries)
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₹2.4 L/yr - ₹9.5 L/yr

1 job opening
4 - 14 years exp. · Chennai (805 salaries)
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₹7.1 L/yr - ₹25.5 L/yr

0 - 9 years exp. · Chennai (782 salaries)
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₹1.7 L/yr - ₹7 L/yr

0 - 4 years exp. · Chennai (760 salaries)
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₹2.7 L/yr - ₹8.2 L/yr

1 - 7 years exp. · Chennai (673 salaries)
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₹3 L/yr - ₹12 L/yr

5 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (495 salaries)
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₹8.5 L/yr - ₹25 L/yr

19 job openings
0 - 9 years exp. · Chennai (22.5k salaries)
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₹4.9 L/yr - ₹14.5 L/yr

17 job openings
8 - 20 years exp. · Chennai (1.6k salaries)
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₹12.4 L/yr - ₹38.4 L/yr

4 job openings
0 - 10 years exp. · Chennai (527 salaries)
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₹1.8 L/yr - ₹7.5 L/yr

4 job openings
11 - 23 years exp. · Chennai (522 salaries)
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₹15 L/yr - ₹43 L/yr

3 job openings

Last Updated: 23 Dec, 2024

Salary related reviews for Cognizant

3.2

Rated by 88 employees for salary & benefits

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Engineering - Software & QA Department

4.0
  •  posted on 17 Aug 2024

2.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

They provide very intense skill development process

Dislikes

Salary compensation for BSc graduates is very low even after completing probabtion period they are not paying well it takes two years to get salary of a engineer graduate who gets at his first month.

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IT & Information Security Department

1.0
  •  posted on 23 Aug 2022

1.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

Nothing

Dislikes

The salary range between engineering based and arts based employee was very huge. For eg, an art bg trainee will receive 14k but engineering bg trainee will receive 26k. They both will be provided with the same training, will do the exact same work. But the salary range will be differ. Even the increment process also the same, arts bg will receive only 2k after a yr as an increment but for engineering near 10k.

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Manlog(energy and utilities) Department

4.0
  •  posted on 07 Jun 2018

3.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

...re are good enough.career growth is based on our working and learning knowledge. If joining as fresher then the salary growth will be average compared to other company.

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Dislikes

Appraisal is not based on working and improvising it is based on how we are helping and managing our managers and higher authorities.Not everyone will get the opportunities to work good over here.Our work and life balance is not as much good and cant manage too in some situtation.

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IT & Information Security Department

3.0
  •  posted on 08 Nov 2024

2.0
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Likes

Learning skills are good, they have provided lot of courses so that we can learn new skills and upgrade ourselves.

Dislikes

Salary, hike is also not much. being a programmer I am working same as my colleagues who are PA but I am getting paid very less compared to them.

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Engineering - Software & QA Department

3.0
  •  posted on 31 Mar 2023

5.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

Work Salary on time Training pay hybrid Remote working

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High pressure You will get tester job even if you want development job Poor management Very few national and Regional holidays in countries like India Sometime have to work late till 9pm -10pm when urgency

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Cognizant Salary FAQs

How much does Cognizant pay per year?
The average Cognizant salary ranges from approximately ₹0.2 Lakh to ₹0.2 Lakh per year for a Safety Engineer and ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year for a Senior Director Finance. Salary estimates are based on 965 Cognizant salaries received from various employees of Cognizant. Cognizant employees rate the overall salary and benefits package 3.2/5 stars.
What is the highest salary in Cognizant?
The highest-paying job at Cognizant is a Senior Director Finance with a salary of ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹18.17 lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹32 lakhs per year.
What is the minimum salary in Cognizant?
Minimum salary at Cognizant depends on the role you are applying for. For Processing Executive the minimum salary is ₹1 Lakh to ₹5 Lakhs per year, and for Programmer Analyst Trainee the minimum salary is ₹2.6 Lakhs to ₹6.7 Lakhs per year and so on.
What is the salary package for freshers in Cognizant?
The average salary at Cognizant for freshers varies from ₹0.7 Lakh to ₹4 Lakhs per year for Information Technology Support Engineer and ₹10 Lakhs to ₹20 Lakhs per year for Senior Business Analyst.
What is the notice period for Programmer at Cognizant in Chennai?
According to AmbitionBox, 40% of the Cognizant Programmers in Chennai reported a notice period of 3 Months, 27% reported a notice period of 2 Months and the remaining reported other notice period durations. This is based on 271 responses on AmbitionBox in last 2 years.

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