TCS Assistant Consultant and Team Lead salaries in Kolkata (Updated 2025)

Likes

Work life balance and security as plenty of projects available. It is at various locations in India. Chances of staying at native and working is easy.

Dislikes

Compensation is less and increment is also very less. Company politics plays a huge role in employees' career (again that varies from project to project) .

Likes

AC in office room. Clean wash rooms.

Dislikes

Very low salary and hikes. High work load. Rude behaviour from manager and lead. Legacy tech and application. Bad company culture and policies. Manager does not allow emoloyees to participate in any celebration. Manager Assign multiple works and expect us to multi task -Raise voice at us and mentally harass us -The friday weekly meeting is like a horrible nightmare -Donot respect each other and see us as a 'resource' -Always contemptous towars others -Will not participate in any celebrations -Every body is afraid to ask him doubt or even talk to him -Sits near ODC door and watches when everybody come and leaves offices -Doesnt like any noise in ODC even mobile ringing -The phone ring from his office phone gives a mild heart attack -Doesnot appreciate good works -People from his team has no time to participate in other cultural activities - HR is affraid to talk to him -Doesnot like persons from hr/admin speak in his ODC. When they comes he leaves odc -Closely follow up work and ask status frequently -even status is asked in rest room urinals

Likes

only work life balance is good as the work is less

Dislikes

The pay and appraisal is very less(lesser than inflation), they deduct extra salary in the name of health insurance, more deductions in quarterly bonus even when company show profitability. There is no learning and no improvement in skillsets and any good ideas are just pushed down without even discussing. One major issue that was faced by me was regionalism (specifically by Tamil seniors) where they gave high ratings to tamils even when the work was not done by them in my team and other folks were not given justified ratings. When this concern was raised the seniors and even HR(who is supposed to help employees) started threatening about my job and my career.

Likes

Health Insurance & Afterlife Benefits

Dislikes

... allocation of resources in multiple projects. - Frequent restructuring of team - Salary Structure is horrible, you'll have monthly variable pay as 'performance pay', quarterly variable as 'quarterly performance bonus' (70% is being paid for senior employee this year, 2023) & there is a Yearly variable too know as 'Retention Bonus' (it is around 1 lakh, which will be ONLY paid if you stay till financial year completion i.e. 31st March). This retention bonus is not just there in your 1st year of joining, you'll have it in subsequent years as well, if you plan to leave tcs, you'll not get this retention bonus for that year (imagine losing 1 Lac when your LWD falls in Jan or Feb). - Salary & hike are definitely below market standards. - Overall, it was suffocating & frustrating experience at least for me.

Likes

Nothing to like only air conditioner in the office building.

Dislikes

...ork on desired technology. Top management do not work and do follow up business. Salary increment is poorest in the industry. Top level increment done ad hoc basis. HR is with management, they do not listen to the sub-ordinates. So, your career, salary everything is with your project management's control.