{"id":846195,"date":"2024-08-20T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846195"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:01:34","slug":"cognizant-responds-to-backlash-on-%e2%82%b92-5-lakh-salary-for-freshers-not-for-engineering-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/20\/cognizant-responds-to-backlash-on-%e2%82%b92-5-lakh-salary-for-freshers-not-for-engineering-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant responds to backlash on \u20b92.5 lakh salary for freshers: \u2018not for engineering graduates\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT giant Cognizant says reports suggesting that techies earn a starting salary of \u20b92.5 lakh per annum were \u201cgrossly misrepresented.\u201d Instead, the package offered to entry-level software engineers is highly competitive and in line with industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>Cognizant had faced massive backlash over a job listing offering a package of \u20b92.5 lakh to freshers. Hundreds of social media users had slammed the salary as \u2018unlivable\u2019 and called on the company to do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT giant Cognizant says reports suggesting that techies earn a starting salary of \u20b92.5 lakh per annum were \u201cgrossly misrepresented.\u201d Instead, the package offered to entry-level software engineers is highly competitive and in line with industry standards. Cognizant had faced massive backlash over a job listing offering a package of \u20b92.5 lakh to freshers. Hundreds of social media users had slammed the salary as \u2018unlivable\u2019 and called on the company to do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846195","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}