| Facts About WIPRO Tech
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Azim Premji may be good person and a good manager. But at WIPRO it sucks. I was into an account and I will tell what the actual situation is - That account is one of higest revenue at Wipro Tech and it had some really good employees. Now:
1. The General Manager comes from a PSU and have no idea on how a software system is built. I agree that you need not know techie stuff to be a GM. But if you are in an ecosystem, you need to know that ecosystem well. Will you accept a Petroleum Manager to lead a Hostpital. You can imagine it will be disastrous.
I will not go how he got in there. In India, language based recruitment rules. Only when the company founders or someone who is really good (mostly from good institutes) takes your interview than it is a different matter. Othewise, if someone speaks Latin and the interviewe speaks latin, then that person is recruited.
2. In my entire stay and that was substantial, the GM never ever gave a talk to the team. And he is the CEO of that account. You can imagine the kind of inspiration he drives.
3. In almost every team the GM will have a spy, based on lingustic identity. How I knew? When I was about to leave, the GM told me that some XYZ manager is keeping a tab on me and I am not fit for the position I am requesting. Well some 4 other companies were ready to give me the same offer.
4. Project managers use abusive languages - of course on fun basis. Sala, Harami (they are south indians!) etc and get away with it. As they are the saying it funnily. Abe Chupe Kar, Kamine etc also goes on.
5. Project Managers have no idea on management. They send FYI mails from one person to the team and every monring you come you will see many of them. It does not have any analysis, direction or input.
Just FYI or FYA. Good lord, I have never seen this kind of people.
6. Techinicality be damned. The account is for some 15 odd years and the work is not substantial. It is all the time politics all the way. The managers can not even create a Project Plan using MS project. I have first hand experience on that.
7. People who are good anyway keep on learing. But when politics rules, technology is not valued, management is imbecile and language based, then how long a good employee will stay??
8. The HR team (they call it TED) is one of the worst. First the HR manager is rarely on phone and even if you ask, you will not get a reply 99% of the time if the question is tough.
9. Ethics and Morality: It is something Premji is fanatical about. But it does not exist at all there.
10. The people who are there for 5+ years carry a red tag and think they have seen the world almost. They have not proper knowledge (people who are good have left) but are put in management. They have no certification like the PMP or Prince2 or do have any proper lanuage skills like Java or C++. They continued palmling the hands of their superior and of course, the language factor.
So how come I joined?
well, I thought that here is a company which talks of ethics, integrity, a CMM5 and PCMM5 and worlds first at that, something must be there. It is not. But I stayed as I had client commmittments.
So how they get so much revenue?
1 USD = 50 Rupees!
I stand my all comments and I have proof in the form of emails from Wipro's manager and their imbecility. | 
