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Background of the study: Occupational stress has become a common and costly problem. The aim of this study was to assess the level of occupational stress and job satisfaction of computer professionals in selected IT companies at Bangalore. Objectives: 1. To assess the level of occupational stress among computer professionals. 2. To assess the level of job satisfaction among computer professionals. 3. To find out the association of occupational stress, job satisfaction with socio demographic variables. Methodology: A Correlational descriptive research design and non experimental approach were carried on 100 Computer professionals working in Info bizz technologies by using convenience sampling technique. Demographic Performa, Likert 3- point rating scale to assess occupational stress and Likert 5 - point rating scale to assess job satisfaction were used to collect data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analysis the data. Results: The findings revealed that majority of computer professionals 49 (49 %) were above 30 years old , 62 (62 %) were Male , majority 64 (64 %) has done post graduate, 75 (75 %) were had income between 20,001 - 50,000, majority 51 (51 %) were married , 63 (63 %) live in urban areas, majority 70 (70 %) belongs to nuclear family, 49 (49 %) are smoker, 72 (72 %) consume alcohol, 51 (51 %) have working experience between 1 - 5 years, 100 (100 %) works more than 8 hours per day. With regard to the stress assessment, majority of the computer professionals 50 % had moderate stress, 22 % had mild stress and 28 % had severe stress. In Job satisfaction, majority of the computer professionals 46 % had low job satisfaction, 22 % had moderate job satisfaction and 32 % had high satisfaction. The assessment of occupational stress and job satisfaction was done by associating them with the selected demographic variables. Significant association was found between the occupational stress and age, Gender, marital status, habit of smoking, duration of smoking, consumption of alcohol, frequency of consumption of alcohol, total years of experience, work shift and total no. of working hours. With job satisfaction significant association was found between the job satisfaction and age, Gender, educational qualification, income, total years of experience, and total no. of working hours. The ?2 formula was used in order to identify the relationship between the demographic variables. Karl Pearson co - efficient of correlation analysis shows a significant relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction among computer professionals. It is negatively correlated since the r value is -0.865, which reveals that when occupational stress increases the job satisfaction decrease. Conclusion: It seems that majority of the computer professionals had low job satisfaction.