Pros
- The bar to get hired as a "Campus Hire" is extremely low. So long as you have a 3.0 GPA in any field and pass a basic behavioral interview, you can get a job earning a living wage. - For people who don't have degrees in Computer Science or IT but have technical aptitude and want to break into Tech, this company will get your foot in the door. - Starting salary will pay your bills and provide financial independence. - Working with client companies will provide an opportunity to build your network and help with finding jobs in the industry after Wipro. - Corporate culture and values are very progressive, though they do not translate into the workplace in a meaningful way.
Cons
-#1: Salary growth is nonexistent. Starting salary may be average or even competitive given the low entry requirements, but it does not improve to reflect your growing market value. After 2 years experience, I am receiving offers for 180% of my Wipro pay with significantly better benefits. - #2: Hidden non-solicitations. The non-compete agreement built into your employment contract is barebones, weak, and even non-enforceable in some states. However, the contract between Wipro and your clients will contain non-solicitation clauses, preventing clients from being able to hire you on directly. Be aware of this going in. - Once you begin working on a client project, your entire leadership and HR structure is transferred overseas. You will never meet or speak to your direct manager and your HR representative will only ever reach out when they want something from you (usually something they wanted two weeks ago that you were never told about). - Work-life balance is non-existent once you begin working on a project. Projects are deliberately overstaffed and underskilled in order to draw out the largest number of billable hours at the lowest individual rates. You will not have the skills necessary to do the work you're assigned and will have to put in a large amount of unpaid/unrecorded overtime if you want to keep up. Your managers know this and will expect it from you without much patience for complaint. Company policies about "comp time" or "remuneration" for extended work hours only exist on paper and you will face significant resistance if you try to formally record or get written permission for any of your overtime. - Poor job performance will get you spoken to, and if managers don't like you they won't put you forward for new clients/projects - resulting in indefinite "furloughs" without pay. Yes, this is true even if you're a fulltime employee. Do not believe in the "Bench" period. Recruiters love to talk about how low-risk the company is because of the "Bench" period. It's not real. The company can and will cut you off if you're not generating a profit, and you have zero control over the projects you're put forward for. It's a completely opaque process handled entirely above your pay grade by managers who "know best." - Excellent job performance will get you smiles and thumbs up, but will not translate into a real (above inflation) raise even at the highest possible performance rating - something management is strongly discouraged from giving out in the first place. Folks in the middle aren't really noticed. If you stay too long, you'll be making less than new hires despite your 3-4 years experience. - Wipro's business model is low bidding, high turnover. The company will not attempt to retain you or otherwise incentivize you to stay no matter how good or valuable you are. There will always be 50 more new hires waiting to take your place. Many Wipro projects are Fixed Cost; so long as they're considered completed and the client isn't trying to get their money back, the details don't really matter. That python script you wrote to automate a manual task and reduce 50 man-hours of work to 50 minutes of runtime just means you'll be expected to take on 49 more hours of work. - Wipro's focus on professional development is disingenuous. You will be provided plenty of tools and trainings, but never any company time to pursue them. Your billable work always comes first, and there will always be more of that than you can conceivably finish in a 40-50 hour week. On top of this, the vast majority of company-sponsored trainings are held in the IST time zone which is the middle of the night for Americans. This won't stop the Workforce Transformation folks from sending you a constant stream of nasty emails about how far behind you are on mandatory trainings/PD.