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Cognizant System Engineer Salaries in Chennai (Updated 2025)

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0 - 5 years exp. · Chennai (423 salaries)
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₹1 L/yr - ₹9 L/yr

1 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (386 salaries)
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₹3.6 L/yr - ₹16.1 L/yr

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2 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (368 salaries)
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₹3.8 L/yr - ₹16 L/yr

6 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (357 salaries)
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₹6.3 L/yr - ₹26 L/yr

1 - 10 years exp. · Chennai (345 salaries)
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₹2.9 L/yr - ₹7.5 L/yr

9 - 21 years exp. · Chennai (327 salaries)
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₹10 L/yr - ₹34 L/yr

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0 - 4 years exp. · Chennai (325 salaries)
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₹3 L/yr - ₹6.6 L/yr

1 - 7 years exp. · Chennai (316 salaries)
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₹2 L/yr - ₹5.9 L/yr

10 - 19 years exp. · Chennai (311 salaries)
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₹13 L/yr - ₹38 L/yr

0 - 7 years exp. · Chennai (306 salaries)
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₹3.5 L/yr - ₹15 L/yr

10 - 19 years exp. · Chennai (306 salaries)
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₹14 L/yr - ₹35.9 L/yr

0 - 4 years exp. · Chennai (303 salaries)
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₹2.8 L/yr - ₹7.2 L/yr

0 - 9 years exp. · Chennai (277 salaries)
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₹2 L/yr - ₹10.5 L/yr

2 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (271 salaries)
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₹5.4 L/yr - ₹18.7 L/yr

10 - 20 years exp. · Chennai (267 salaries)
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₹15 L/yr - ₹35 L/yr

1 - 13 years exp. · Chennai (252 salaries)
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₹2.9 L/yr - ₹10.5 L/yr

0 - 5 years exp. · Chennai (247 salaries)
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₹1 L/yr - ₹6.1 L/yr

3 - 12 years exp. · Chennai (239 salaries)
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₹6.5 L/yr - ₹22 L/yr

1 - 7 years exp. · Chennai (239 salaries)
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₹2.4 L/yr - ₹11 L/yr

1 job opening
1 - 8 years exp. · Chennai (227 salaries)
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₹4.1 L/yr - ₹16.5 L/yr

0 - 9 years exp. · Chennai (227 salaries)
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₹2 L/yr - ₹12 L/yr

Last Updated: 28 Mar, 2025

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3.5

Rated by 35 employees for salary & benefits

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Engineering - Software & QA Department

2.0
  •  posted on 20 Mar 2025

3.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

As working here is quite good when your manager is cooperative. Though In previous two years work and manager both was good no complaints for them and i worked from home till now and everyone was cool.

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  • Skill development - Good

Dislikes

Now during current project my so called manager is psycho. Here in cognizant manager also do coding but he is like only I have to do everything and he just wants credit for it. Even to other squads he is like only he is doing work. He oftenly insulted me and two other team mates. I talked with my home manager but no benefit. Only you have to suffer in that scenario.

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  • Job security - Poor
  • +3 more

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Consulting Department

2.0
  •  posted on 19 Mar 2025

3.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

1. salary do not have varaibale component. 2. Co-workers are good.

Dislikes

1. Low job security 2. Forcing people to work from office(ODC) 3. Mostly support projects 4. Very low transparency with poor management 5. Work satisfaction is very average

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  • Skill development - Poor
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Engineering - Software & QA Department

2.0
  •  posted on 17 Mar 2025

1.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

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Despite the fact that cognizant is not directly involved, the management team is the worst because I had a bad rating once and spoke with my HR about it. She said that it was illogical to claim to be able to speak Hindi, and they do not care about employees. While some employees are excellent, favoritism is a non-issue in the Kolkata office. I will not receive any better senior support that would help me start from scratch.

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  • Skill development - Good

Dislikes

...a result, you will be highly appreciated with a very bad rating and feedback. 5. salary is very low and there is no hike or promotion if you are not favourite candidate of your manager

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  • Salary - Bad
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Engineering - Software & QA Department

5.0
  •  posted on 21 Feb 2025

4.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

CTS provides a good work life balance and decent salary. All other things depends on the type of project which you got.

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  • Salary - Good
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Dislikes

As a fresher you will be getting support projects , so be aware before choosing any project.

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IT & Information Security Department

2.0
  •  posted on 20 Feb 2025

2.0
 for  Salary and Benefits

Likes

We can get free online portal like udemy.

  • Skill development - Good
  • +1 more

Dislikes

...project and not based on your profile. No work satisfaction and company culture. Not good promotions, salary.

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  • Salary - Poor
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