{"id":845651,"date":"2024-08-19T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=845651"},"modified":"2024-08-19T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:13:57","slug":"entry-level-engineer-salaries-range-from-rs-4-12-lakh-not-rs-2-52-lakh-says-cognizant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/19\/entry-level-engineer-salaries-range-from-rs-4-12-lakh-not-rs-2-52-lakh-says-cognizant\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry-level engineer salaries range from Rs 4-12 lakh, not Rs 2.52 lakh, says Cognizant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After facing social media backlash over the Rs 2.52 lakh annual salary offer for freshers, IT firm, Cognizant on Sunday said that it offers Rs 4-12 lakh salary to fresh engineering graduates, and the salary being quoted on social media is for non-engineering undergraduate degree holders.<\/p>\n<p>The company also addressed the criticism on social media regarding annual salary hikes, with some alleging that the increments were as low as 1%. Cognizant said that the figure represents the lower band of a 1-5% range of increments based on individual performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After facing social media backlash over the Rs 2.52 lakh annual salary offer for freshers, IT firm, Cognizant on Sunday said that it offers Rs 4-12 lakh salary to fresh engineering graduates, and the salary being quoted on social media is for non-engineering undergraduate degree holders. The company also addressed the criticism on social media regarding annual salary hikes, with some alleging that the increments were as low as 1%. Cognizant said that the figure represents the lower band of a 1-5% range of increments based on individual performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}