Cognizant Associate Software Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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Good I like that there are good projects available. If you get that great you will get experience and knowledge.

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1. Salary and hikes are low. 2. Poor employee welfare activities, once a year they take you out for team lunch. If you missed then nothing, no gifts, abs nothing, saving so much money but gives back nothing.

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Salary was good when you joining Some colleagues are good and friendly

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Depend on project and managers you got Dont expect promotion Salary hike will be delayed You have to work all weekends if needed

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The company policies are bad when it comes to compensating employees. Worst salary revisions you ever see in any company. Year End ratings will be announced in March 1 st week and you will get the salary revision in December almost a year later you can say. And the revision is also very bad likely to be less than 7% every year. If you want to work here, come with a good package and do not work more than 2 years here. I have been working here from 2014 in various products and performed very well by participating in hackathons, etc. But still my package is very less compared to other people in other companies. Its my mistake i did not switch the company. Overall, Worst Worst Worst. Do not Join.

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The important thing that is salary revision. Its the worst process you ever see in any company. You will have lots of work, lots of pressure on doing innovation, hackathoin's, etc. Even after doing all these things you will not get what you want in salary revision, its the same hike percentage even if you perform extraordinarily. Politics plays major role when it comes to promotion. Worst

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1. Health insurance provided by company 2. Master Health Check up every years 3. Required trainings were conducted by our architect 4. Good cafeteria and other facilities 5. Good for freshers.

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...ll. Management is purely helpless as they don't have any control on this. 2. No variable pay after completing one full year, if you resigned. 3. Management indirectly force you to work on weekends. 4. Once your deliverables are done , they will forget the promises given to you.

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Leaves (lots of leaves) Some good managers Good learning. You have udemy, multiple cloud partners. You can study for free. Colleagues are friendly. No strict office timing ( you can just stay for an hour and do wfh) Food is ok. If you are an extrovert, there are lot kf outreach programs. Transparency till higher management.

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Recently, After CEO change there are No promotion, No hikes and no good projects. They are loosing clients left and right, leading to less salary, heavy firing, cost cuts, less variable bay (even for 5 Rating, you'll get 2K hike) Mostly due to losing projects, there is mainly prod support or infra setup for US based companies. Some managers are heavily toxic, that they take personal vengeance with you.