Cognizant SME salaries in Chennai (Updated 2025)

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Cognizant has its strengths, but I feel there's room for improvement in several areas beyond just salary. For me, the overall experience hasn’t aligned with my expectations.

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In my personal experience, I have faced challenges with the lack of qualified managers and team leads. For instance, in our team, we work from different locations, and our team lead rarely conducted regular team huddles. Even when I, as a senior, tried to take responsibility and initiate meetings, he would often find reasons to stop or postpone them. Over the course of the year, he connected with the team only four or five times, which was far from adequate for effective team collaboration. Additionally, my manager has been disconnected from the team for over a year. When he first joined during a critical transformation period, he did not take the time to observe the team members' expertise, interests, or long-term goals. This lack of involvement left us feeling unsupported and undervalued. One major concern was the cultural bias I experienced. Being from Chennai and a Tamil speaker, I noticed a clear difference in how I and others like me were treated compared to team members from Hyderabad, particularly Telugu-speaking colleagues. This disparity in treatment created a sense of alienation and made it difficult to feel like a cohesive part of the team.

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Salary- worst, getting knowledge- worst, comfort zone- YESSSS, Day shift - only because of that am not shifting to anyother company....I learnt one thing, working in same company for years is waste of time .... I.spolied my career....

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No salary hike, no career development

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You love your team more like your family

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Remuneration - no arrears will be given to the delayed hike, employees salary exploited by giving hike 8 to 10 months delayed for the previous period which is worst to the core.

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Its mutinational with multiple domains. Concepts methods and operations not like any other companies can comparable. Over all its fortune 500 company

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...ciates relation gaps. Problems never solved. No job satisfaction. No HR support. Every where cost cutting. No much benefits. No annual celebeations. No outdoor trips.

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Your experience will totally depend upon the process you are hired for. My experience wasn’t good with my project.

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...g hours. Unapproachable Management. Very few leaves in a year. HRs are not good. Allowances not paid on time and not completely.