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Mainframe Administrator salary at Cognizant ranges between ₹4.1 Lakhs to ₹5.2 Lakhs per year for employees with 1 year of experience. Salary estimates are based on 1 latest salaries received from various employees of Cognizant.

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Software Engineer in Noida

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Engineering - Software & QA Department

5.0

• posted on 21 Feb 2025

4.0

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

Salary - Good

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• posted on 20 Feb 2025

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

Salary - Poor

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Senior Associate in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

IT & Information Security Department

3.0

• posted on 26 Jan 2025

4.0

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

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Senior Associate in Noida

Full Time

Procurement & Supply Chain Department

4.0

• posted on 10 Jan 2025

3.0

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Cognizant has strong capebilities in delivering technology services with a robust support. People are satisfied working here but since past couple of years company has not given ample opportunitiesto employees in terms of growth and compensastion

Work satisfaction - Good

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Not good approasal No timely appraisal No promotion policies No standard salary parameters as per exp No benchmarking for compensastion

Senior Associate in Kolkata

Full Time

Engineering - Software & QA Department

3.0

• posted on 10 Jan 2025

4.0

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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.

Promotions - Poor

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Cognizant Mainframe Administrator salary in India ranges between ₹4.1 Lakhs to ₹5.2 Lakhs. This is an estimate based on latest salaries received from employees of Cognizant.

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