Lack of Integrity & Breaking the Law regularly: Wipro talks all about integrity and being black and white and no shades of gray, but continues to break the law by sending people with B1 visas to work in the US.
They recently got barred from World Bank for giving bribes through stock and benefits. Below Industry Pay: Their pay is substandard and treat its employees very badly, brainwashing its lower middle class to middle class employees to think that they are in a great organization and keep them oppressed.
They are a body shop that pretends to be consultants, the people who joined wipro 20 years ago are now VPs and presidents among which one or two is good. It has a decent brand image in Bangalore but outside, its terrible and around the world it doesn’t mean anything reflected in its stock prices.
Its also a family business that is not run professionally. Imagine if you have a business and you are very stingy you would not like your employees driving good cars or doing well, that’s Premji’s attitude. Poor working conditions: very basic, shuttled in and out in expensive bus rides to electronic city, and other parts of the city, you often spend up-to 3 hours in their outsourced buses which are expensive.
Its like herding cattle into a lorry , that’s what they do with their uncomfortable buses. As for attitudes, they have a very authoritative attitude where they micomanage you, and police you by making sure you swipe in and out with tags, even if you are leaving for lunch within their campus, swipe cards with strings which are like dog tags. When you go on onsite engagements they pay you so little for board and food that you are more concerned with trying to eat in cheap and unhealthy McDonald’s and make your sparse wipro budget meet than doing meaningful work for the client.
Who Stays in Wipro over the long term: No one who is good, all mediocre and below average stay. Wipro has very attrition rates and now with the recession has been treating people even worse. Anyone who is good leaves. The only exception to this rule are the extremely senior management who are getting great pay and are entrenched in the system and unmovable.