Joining Wipro Technologies – Bangalore

I joined Wipro on the 10th of July 2006 after spending a little more than 3 years in Capgemini. I was very apprehensive while joining as I was leaving behind 3 years of comfort at my previous firm and all of a sudden came to new organization where I did not know anybody, the culture is different and the processes are different and all the infrastructure(computer, login ID’s, bus pass etc.) w.r.t me would have to be streamlined. I first met Raviraja Dubba in the induction program and he seemed to be a lively guy. Next few days were spent shuttling between various offices to meet the JDE management. Param is the JDE practice head mainly aligned towards sales/BD and Mohan Chennasamudram the delivery manager. I also happened to meet Vishal Saxena, Nirmal Assudani and Jagannath Kannan. I also met/contacted my Wipro pals – Mahantesh Halejolad, Gopi Hombal, N Sriram(who referred me) and Arun UJ. After the first few days was given oppurtunities in the Lexmark project-Kolkatta and Cardinal Health report development team-Bangalore but did not work out. Now I was asked to move to UK on the project Arjo-Wiggins for 5 months. I found out that Wipro isa very process driven organsisation with each everything happening based on approvals and approvals. It is a stark contrast compared to my previous organization where it was just through a simple mail instead of a system. The whole Wipro runs on an SAP system which is integrated with HTML interfaces. There are few more for quality and other tools. There is a website designed for the wiproites to discuss, buy/sell, matrimonials and many more things. This is a really wonderful concept.