Cooking is a good career option
Money making and career building are two different things. Maid gets the same salary even after 5 years. That's not the case with IT joiners who can learn and earn more with growing experience.
True, just that some tea sellers are earning far more money than an IT engineer with 10 years of experience.
Right.. Business and salaried people are two different categories. It all depends on what one is good at. I just disagree your comparison in original post. People are easily deteriorating one job over the other. Though entry level salary is less which needs to be increased, I do believe that these IT jobs provide more opportunities for small town people like me to enhance life.
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Sapthinker
Stealth
a month ago
Wrong analogy, i started with 15000/- per month which is 1.8 LPA, now 10 years later I get 1.8 Lakhs per month in hand after ~50k tax and pf deduction.
So growth is the key.
Sapthinker
Stealth
a month ago
I work in service based mnc, cant switch track to product based now its too late. But I am content with good WLB ( as of now, had gone through hell period in previous mncs)
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yejsok
Stealth
a month ago
~2.5lpm after 4.5 years exp is a massive low ball imo. You should quickly upskill and find a new place.
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I am tired of these comparisons. They ate helping you enter in the IT sector. Yes, the pay is way off but you will grow, right? But the maid will earn the same amount for 5 years. I usually LinkedIn posts of people celebrating their move from service to product but what they forget is that the exp they hold is from service only. The chance that they got is because someone helped them enter the market.
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Bitter truth
Those engineers are unemployable. cognizant have done a mass charity after a few years 95% of them will look out for a job change.
Companies like this are just doing charity work for us, honestly speaking.
If you ask them to write simple data structures programs and ask them space time complexity of a for loop they won't be able to answer them. Nobody has told them to join cognizant tcs Wipro Infosys etc... if you have talent then crack the open interview and walk-ins and get a job.
After taking 500+ interviews this is my option for the freshers job Market.
Omjelo45
Stealth
a month ago
You do have a point, but the salary should be something that supports living in a tier-1 city at least break even.
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Investor3823
Student
a month ago
Cab Driving, Fitness trainer etc there are hell lot of better career options than this . A Cult fit trainer who undergoes some certification courses on fitness is hired at starting of 30-40k per month
Investor3823
Student
a month ago
This is quite demeaning to be very frank
This app users are not the target audience for this announcement for sure. But yes, it sucks and will continue to happen till they can get people to join at this salary.
Noctus
Stealth
a month ago
Itna salary bhi kyu de rha ha .
1lpa enough ha freshers ko exploit karne ka liya
DelayedRam
Stealth
a month ago
I want to downvote the org but downvoting the post won’t help anyone. People ought to know they’re blood suckers. 🙂↕️
But there are people who need that too. Your maid can't switch from Infosys to Google and hike her salary 1000%
Don't discourage any move. U have such a short-sight.
If someone is very good enough, he would have cracked other companies. Let's say bad luck, then he would switch in next 2 yrs.
But everyone need a start now.
If you are that great start a startup and run it and pay everyone 15LPA.
There should be a minimum wage rule in India or these freshers should have remote working setup, with this nominal salary its difficult to even survive in big cities
Mehanti
Stealth
a month ago
I think Cognizant should start charging for certificate, Office space expenses, Coffee machine expenses, Electricity Expenses, Furniture expenses and laptop and other charges from Fresher
When I began my career, I joined at 2.35 LPA and now l'm at 18 LPA with nearly 4 y.o.e. Maid work and chai work cannot be done in the long run. If you are not at the place of work, you lose your pay. Whereas in IT you have options like WFH or Sick leave.
Every job/work has its own perks and downsides. It's your interest.
And never go behind money.
LooseGoose
Stealth
a month ago
If cooking gives you fulfilment, why not? People happily pay extra for good cooks.
Salary structure for freshers should be changed in India now atleast should be around 5 lakh per year minimum
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