Cognizant Kochi Lead Engineer Salaries by 2 Employees (Updated 2025)

7 - 9 years exp.

₹17.5 Lakhs - ₹22.4 Lakhs

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Cognizant Lead Engineer Salary

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Lead Engineer salary at Cognizant ranges between ₹17.5 Lakhs to ₹22.4 Lakhs per year for employees with experience between 7 years to 9 years. Salary estimates are based on 2 latest salaries received from various employees of Cognizant.

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Lead Engineer in Gurgaon / Gurugram

Full Time

Production, Manufacturing & Engineering Department

3.0

• posted on 14 Sep 2023

4.0

for Salary and Benefits

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There is no company level interaction. They will hire you, once you in no one will interact with you from cognizant side. Full time you have to work with client. No manager interaction , no one is there with you if something happens to you. There is concept of Home manager and business manager, both are there for no reason. They will not help in any case. If you have problem they will hear you once you ping them and no action.What ever you perform in client side even you are best or worst hike will happen on average. No impact of working hard or best performance, your hike will be very average. I prefer NOT TO JOIN THIS COMPANY. They will offer 2-3 lakh extra from market and due to those 2-3 lakh you have to suffer allot. NO JOB SECURITY any time they put you on BENCH and from bench you yourself have to search the project and if not you are fired. To join this company was my worst experience and decision. Please dont join for the sake of extra 2-3 lakh of ctc…

Salary - Good

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...ant to say DO NOT join this company. You will have to switch again in 1 year. They will give you 2-3 lakh extra and joining bonus also and joining bonus will have 1 year bond. So you will wait for 1 year to leave this company. I want to talk more about this but please stay away. They will not consider your tech stack whole assigning you a project. I was java angular react developer with microservice exp also. If client need you to work on linux or python developer you have to work because you are tagged to client and cognizant will not help you here.

Skill development - Bad

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Lead Engineer in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Engineering - Software & QA Department

2.0

• posted on 05 Apr 2023

5.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

...anagement to ask any thing. I was a labor hired by cognizant given to 3rd party. Only salary message i got from cognizant nothing else. Client suddenly ended contract and then cognizant lined up my few interviews i had to crack any of those sudden interviews without preparing, you have to clear. Its hard to suffer in this situation. Ever 6-8 month you have to change your project. what ever you perform in project and worked hard to client does not mean anything as contract ends and no one knows about your task or work done. I suggest not to join this company till you dont have other options. It will Lure you with 3-4 lakh extra , this is what my mistake was,

Salary - Excellent

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Allot of thing, Cognizant management don't know anything what is happening in client side. Bad luck to me was my manager from cognizant side was also new he dont knw any process or anything if i asked any help from him. Not recommended to join.

Skill development - Bad

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Programmer Analyst in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Engineering - Software & QA Department

2.0

• posted on 30 Jan 2025

2.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Opportunities to learn, security of job

Job security - Good

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Dislikes

Management will not care about your problems. Salary is low compared to competitors. They'll change your project at September and for year end rating they'll simply say we haven't got chance to fully understand your capabilities as you've recently joined in the project. Every year this loop continues. No matter how hard you work or how many appreciations you get from client. "The more number of days you're in the same LOB, the more rating you'll get." (This is the excuse I've got when I questioned about the rating, despite having multiple client appreciations). This demotivates for sure!

Salary - Poor

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Programmer Analyst in Kolkata

Full Time

IT & Information Security Department

1.0

• posted on 29 Jan 2025

1.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Nothing to like about this company

Dislikes

0 work life balance Even if you live thousands of kms away they will drag you to come to office And forget about good salary or promotion Join this company only if you want to destroy your life and your mental health

Salary - Bad

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Senior Associate in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

IT & Information Security Department

3.0

• posted on 26 Jan 2025

4.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Cognizant have lot of job opportunities and provide nice pay according to market standards. People working in cognizant can switch to other technology and work on it.

Salary - Good

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Dislikes

Hikes are very less when compare to other companies. Due to internal politics talented people efforts are recognised.

Skill development - Poor

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Cognizant Lead Engineer salary in Kochi ranges between ₹17.5 Lakhs to ₹22.4 Lakhs. This is an estimate based on latest salaries received from employees of Cognizant.