No Salary Increments but good work-life balanc - Tech Lead HCLTech Employee Review

No salary increment for every year For most years employees gets 0% increment irrespective how they performed Although CEO gets increment every year and for year 2026 he got 71% hike which raised his salary 154 crores while mostly employee got the 0% hike. If you working in hcl or will be joining soon, don’t expect any increment but you will definitely get the 10-50% of decreased bonus in your pay every year.