{"id":845695,"date":"2024-08-19T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=845695"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:41:16","slug":"cognizant-offering-salaries-between-%e2%82%b94-12-lakh-to-fresher-engineers-says-evp-surya-gummadis-amid-social-media-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/19\/cognizant-offering-salaries-between-%e2%82%b94-12-lakh-to-fresher-engineers-says-evp-surya-gummadis-amid-social-media-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant offering salaries between \u20b94-12 lakh to fresher engineers, says EVP Surya Gummadis amid social media backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to social media criticism over its \u20b92.52 lakh annual salary offer for new hires, IT giant Cognizant clarified on Sunday that it actually offers salaries ranging from \u20b94-12 lakh to fresh engineering graduates, according to a report by PTI. The amount being discussed online pertains to non-engineering undergraduate degree holders. <\/p>\n<p>The company also faced ridicule for providing annual salary hikes as low as 1 percent. However, this figure represents the lower end of the 1-5 percent annual increments that are awarded based on individual performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to social media criticism over its \u20b92.52 lakh annual salary offer for new hires, IT giant Cognizant clarified on Sunday that it actually offers salaries ranging from \u20b94-12 lakh to fresh engineering graduates, according to a report by PTI. The amount being discussed online pertains to non-engineering undergraduate degree holders. The company also faced ridicule for providing annual salary hikes as low as 1 percent. However, this figure represents the lower end of the 1-5 percent annual increments that are awarded 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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845695","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=845695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}