Samsung Research Lead Engineer salaries in Research & Development in India (Updated 2025)

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Good Work-life balance, Great small-small perks like free lunch, transportation, Snacks, Communication Allowance etc, these helps in saving a lot of money. Every once in a year you get to go to South Korea.

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...whole time on many days and that's another problem you have to sit for 8.30 Hrs. to mark attendance or complete the weekly time and shortfall you have to apply leaves or pay from salary. They recently started Hybrid Model but it also monitors your work time and even a small difference will get your name in mail from Attendance Team.

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Do not confuse between Samsung and Samsung R&D (the former will have better ratings/reviews on glassdoor/ambitionbox as it is purely sales/marketing/corporate/operations/manufacturing. The engineering is under Research (SRI-Bangalore/Noida) Brand Name Free and variety of good food Initial Hike while onboarding Top Management Job security Princely treatment for a month just before SCI(samsung culture index survey) which impacts line managers/leads If you stay here for 5y+ then be sure to retire here because no other company would hire you dumbs. Hence people completing 10/15/20 glorious years

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...nt have any IT/Programming/People skills but surviving somehow with Excel/ppt 7. IIT/NIT recruits and Regulars have huge pay parity at same level. Even then IIT/NITians leave within 2-3yrs span bcz of declining growth. 8. Substandard development 9. Only focus on long approval/workflow security processes 10. Politics at its best 11. All achievements like best employers is for Samsung Research America/Canada dont be fooled thinking its India because they promote it that way.

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Only good thing is cafeteria.

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... the industry here it is lower. Lot of bias between IIT,NITs and other colleges. If you have IIT/NIT tag and working in same team then you get much lesser package, also not so good treatment.

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Free food, free bus service, hybrid work policy after COVID, business travel opportunities.

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Micromanagement, incompetent mid-level management, pay and benefits not competitive with other MNCs, more reporting than actual work, slow knowledge gain, too many approvals in processes.

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Some benefits like Diwali discount on smartphones, free breakfast/lunch, free transport, sponsored education, occasional amazon coupons,

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...ndemic. Very Few perks when compared to top tech companies. No growth by skills. Huge compensation parity with IIT and NonIIT in the same level. Zero Normalization. Credits stolen by Incompetent Managers. Top heavy organization (surplus managers-few engineers) Politics at its best. Monarchy is followed. Software Engineering team (testing&devops) works like clerical support to development. No transparency in policy.