Wood Group Principal Engineer salaries in Kolkata (Updated 2025)

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1. Salary is good. 2. Job security is also good. 3. Some of the senior colleagues are very supportive and cooperative. I've learned a lot from them. 4. Good place to start with.

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1. Work-life balance is very bad in Kolkata office. There are some senior Project leads (not all) who care about the hours juniors are working rather than the quality output they are giving. They literally track the time period once their team members are not available at their desk. Office timing: 9:30 am - 6 pm. But, here working till 8 pm means you have worked, but if you leave from office within 6 - 6:30 pm, it means you haven't done anything, doesn't matter what your entry time is (9:30 or, 9 or, 9:45 or, 10 or, 8:45 pm). Only you need to show off. 2. Company culture is also poor. Seniors make rules and don't follow any of it. I felt very disturbed while working in a specific project. The team members were not supportive and they were very much prone to complaining each other instead of building trust. 3. Lack of flexibility in work.

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Nothing

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Everything.. Toxic managers and work culture.. No work life balance... Overtime work without OT pay... No additional bonus.. Partiality in appraisal... No job security... They can eliminate you by deploying corporate politics...

Likes

Salary is abouve market standards Hybrid work culture

Dislikes

The management is non interactive woth the employees Insensitive towards problems faced by individuals My team leader does not have any leadership qualities but still the management does not care There are employees who have been flavored so much so an emplyee against whom an HR was filed was given award in a public forum and also given a promotion, and the person complaining was asked to leave. No focus on skill development and personal development.

Likes

Huge workload allows you to get accustomed with working under pressure. You will be getting a good exposure to foreign codes and standards. Training is basically OJT which is somewhat better than formal training as it allows you to apply your learnings in real time which also develops your confidence. Project leads are mostly helpful they will really help you to develop your concepts and they themselves are also very knowledgeable. In case of any conceptual misunderstanding, you can ask anyone to get it cleared as almost everyone around you have an experience of at least 10 years which also implies that you will mostly be working with experienced employees, though Wood is currently increasing its graduate intake but the ratio is bare minimum. And last but not the least projects are mostly international and working on them really makes you fit for international competition.

Dislikes

...w the instructions of there leads and behave in the way they are asked to be. Salary is below average in comparison to the quantity of the deliverables you are asked to produce. Promotion is really slow.

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nothing

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Teammates: who are smoking with manager that people only getting good salary. so some teammates are started smoking. Some team mates doing manager's personnal work (Non smoking managers) and getting promotions. Training: No training for site visit. management rejected for site engineering. Career growth: zero, once you joined in wood chennai office. travel: all cost cutting politics: More politics. who are all do manager's personal work they only lead the project and good hike and promotions. learning: zero work environ: worst. No leave. you apply leave but work, No overtime. because project taken lesser man hours so that you forced to work mid time with entry to out/ no cab arranged/ No overtime pay in more projects even work weekends without project booking. Innovation: Management people are same region so that no knowledge. work life balance: always work work. management told don't marry.