Joining TCS? This is the salary and hierarchy structure in the IT company

From a fresh recruit to a top notch position, every IT company has a different organisational structure and a different designation hierarchy.

Once you are recruited by the IT companies, your movement in the hierarchy depends on your performance and several ratings. Each company has a different evaluation system and off late, many companies have moved away from the Bell Curve, adopting reviewing methods.

Likewise, India’s biggest IT conglomerate, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has a different hierarchy structure. Many experts say TCS and Infosys have a similar structure.

Talking about TCS, when a person is hired, he/she starts as Assistant System Engineer (Trainee) with around Rs 3.16 lakh as salary. Since TCS also gives out bands, depending on your performance, you growth, both money-wise and designation-wise, depends on the appraisals.

There was a question on Quora where someone asked about the hierarchy and salaries of each designation in TCS. Many TCS employees replied on the same. Here are designation hierarchy and salary structure from the best answers.