Which companies i should prefer for a good work life balance? I'm fresher and will be getting placement soon!!!

Dude you are in your 20s. You should forget work life balance and work hard if you want to climb good career in your life. After marriage you can think of work life balance. Now focus on hardwork

Companies in India with highest pay

Good WLB

• Linkedin
• Microsoft
• Google
• Atlassian
• Adobe
• Salesforce
• Intuit
• Apple
• Twitter
• Indeed
• Expedia
• Nvidia
• VMWare
• Intel
• Flipkart
• Inmobi
• Nutanix
• Morgan Stanley
• JP Morgan

Bad WLB

• Uber
• Tower Research
• Amazon
• Goldman Sachs
• Codenation
• Zomato
• DE Shaw
• Sprinklr
• Arcesium
• Harness
• Coinbase

Unknown WLB (Didn't find much data)

• Rippling
• Rubrik
• Udaan
• Sumologic
• Cure Fit
• Swiggy
• Ola
• Directi
• ServiceNow
• Stripe
• Sharechat
• Postman
• Oracle (OCI)
• Compass
• HealthifyMe
• Aviso
• Target
• Palo Alto Networks
• Compass
• Vizury
• Qubole
• Practo
• Whatfix
• World Quant
• Alphonso
• App Dynamics
• Citrix
• Cohesity
• MotorQ
• Hasura
• Quadeye
• Bloomreach
• Instabase
• AirBnB

Lower paying companies (AFAIK; please let me know if I am wrong)

Good WLB

• Cisco
• Samsung
• Walmart
• Slack
• Blackbuck
• Oracle (other than OCI)
• Visa
• Intel
• Qualcomm
• ARM
• Broadcom
• Texas Instruments
• Mentor Graphics

Unknown WLB

• Cred
• Upgrad
• Paypal
• Dunzo
• Unacademy
• Oyo
• BigBasket
• Cloudera
• Twilio
• Box8
• MyGate
• Jio
• MakeMyTrip
• Dream11
• BrowserStack
• Razorpay
• Juniper Networks
• SanDisk
• Redhat
• Chowbotics (DoorDash)

Bad WLB

• Hotstar
• Paytm
• Wissen

Unknown compensation

• Groupon
• Gojek
• Zoom
• Grab
• Truecaller
• Snowflake (Should be high considering it pays well in US?)

Visa-sponsors outside US

• Facebook London
• Yelp London
• Booking Amsterdam
• Databricks Amsterdam
• Spotify Stockholm
• Zalando Berlin
• ByteDance Singapore
• Plenty of other options on Stackoverflow jobs.

Remote-first companies

• Atlassian
• Slack
• Stackoverflow
• Facebook
• Datadog
• Twitter
• Square
• Shopify
• Github
• Gitlab
• Auth0
• Coinbase

Bro... Majority of the companies in India don't have in their agenda to provide "good work life balance"... And it ultimately depends on the team / Manager not the company...

The best solution is have a good network of friends / peers who you can vent out anything!!

You have misplaced priorities. As a fresher your primary concern should be what technologies you will get to work on (thereby imparting you a firm technical base on which your future career could fly), or how much good quality of tech work you will get in which particular companies (or at least its relative chances). Talking of Work Life Balance, as to what it is, it is just as the word says, there has to be a balance, meaning that your office work should not disturb your personal life. For example, if your team lead or manager keeps scolding now and then, or keep putting too much pressure to finish work fast, then it may start affecting your peace of mind even after Office hours. As an another example, if you start getting assigned too much work, and you start getting forced to work beyond officer hours (either by direct verbal order, or by implied pressure), then that too will start affecting your personal life adversely. But frankly, these are not the things you are supposed to worry about in the initial 2-3 yrs. Much bigger aspect as a fresher, is the quality of work you get, and the quality of tech stack you get to learn as part of your work. If you enjoy the work, you will not mind some extra work too. But if you don’t like the work and you are forced to work extra, that will become a torture and you may feel like quitting IT industry altogether. So the quality of work is what is most important aspect. And the usual work hours, are 9-6 or 10-7 pm, though it all varies from company to company, and in many service based companies you may have to do night shifts too periodically. Good luck. Prepare well for the Interviews.

Go to some gulf country, have fun

If you aspire to get placed in tech companies and grow there, your work life balance is bound to take a hit. Same for consulting and product management based roles. The best work life balance is found in customer service based roles where your pay will be close to shit but you'll have more than enough time to pursue your hobbies. Your career progression will be slower than your peers but if your priority is your family, customer service based roles in major companies will give you that time. I work at Amazon and here the more you move up the ladder, the worse the work life balance gets.

At least for first few years, learn learn and learn. At later stage of your career you yourself will get answer to your question on where to work based on your need.

It really depends on your project and manager. I've 1 yoe and currently I am working on my 2nd project after training. In 1st one I used to work 14 hrs, sometime weekends as well, but in current project I do literally nothing.

Where are you getting placed? Also, try to spend 3-5 years in the industry to feel and understand the facts. By doing this, you will get all your answers automatically. It may happen, 1. you will get a good WLB but less interesting work/tech stack or, 2. Good stack, learning but less or no wlb

So, YMMV as compared to others.