Commonwealth Bank of Australia, India Sde1 salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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Good salary.

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CBA India team is treated like a vendor. Toxic work culture. Everything is controlled by Sydney team. All important work is owned by Sydney team. India team is given monotonous, clerical kind of work only to make them feel worthless and unproductive. Anyone who tries to take a stand is humiliated in front of the entire team deliberately. No difference in work of a 5 yeo and 15 yeo. You will forget everything you have learnt all your professional life because someone sitting in Sydney decides not to trust your experience and hand you over a document which was created years ago and asks you to follow it line by line. Please save your life and never join this full of crap company. India management’s thought of taking over Sydney team is a distant dream. They need to grow some spine first.

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Good package at the time of joining with 25% of variable pay only... later on nothing...

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no work-life balance This product-based company in india has worse culture than service-based company Indian management working in this company prefers only those from their region. Whether they work or not, they give all kinds of ratings or promotions quickly. No matter how hard people from other regions work or how many certifications they have, it doesn't matter; at the end, they give negative feedback only. alwasy demotivativation... many sessions conducted on mental health and well-being, but many in management continue to harass their team members. Suggestions to the Management: Since the chapter leads and line managers are engaging in a lot of political games, introduce them to feedback as well, such as 360-degree feedback.

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Cab facility, shuttle facility, insurance

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... get promotion hike from 0 yes from 0 to 60 it is based on the range If you have less package you will get big percentage Variable pay is joke here, Don't fall for variable pay No boundaries on work They will make you to do all the work if you don't know how to say no, Very old technologies Only SQL is required No spark code will by writing They have their own library to use (built on top of spark) to use only SQL not the dataframe code Micro management Just lik other office Office politics on region Deployment process is completely manual More documentation process for release No documentation on code or requirements No onsite opportunity Work pressure Outdated technologies No food Discrimination against gender on recruitment

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Joining salary, cab facility Best for ladies Who don't care about skills or technology

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It is female organisation, Full discrimination towards males For recruitment to promotions, hikes Outdated technologies Outdated release process, dev work is simpler than release Entire release process is manual There are people in release management they will do show off like they only did everything, no credit to actual designers,tech BA, dev or testing, at last all the credit goes release team The release teams knows nothing, even not able execute steps without our help, can't execute single step.

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Offered good salary, various benifits. Flexible working hours. Good employee friendly insurance policy, various tax benifits. Easy to approach HRs. Only 40% in office attendance required. No monitoring of hours spending in office.

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I) Mostly Enhancement related works as major development already done by the vendors, so if you are looking for good development work then you will be disappointed. II) Less growth as less number of promotion. III) Managers are not good IV) Almost near to 0 possibility of changing projects V) Too much process involve for following SDLC processes from Code development to successful deployment in Production VI) Dependencies with multiple team with onshore and offshore VII) Lot of favouritism in Managers VIII) Lot of promises in Monthly Townhall discussion however in reality unable to achieve 50% of it. IX) Infrastructure is ok, however canteen food is very expensive X) A very strange process of taking in office attendance through turnstile gate swiping via mobile navigation app