Inclusion & Diversity

Wipro journey

10 years after, I am still happy to be a part of this amazing organization. Over the years, I have moved from different LOBs and different roles in Wipro. Each movement was a new learning experience. From the very basic skills of customer service, my knowledge has expanded to leadership, training and even employee engagement – my favorite. I never got bored. I’m proud to have worked with very good teams and leaders who helped me improve and go beyond my limits.

My stay with the company isn’t perfect, but all those challenging times that we faced made me witness how the site has grown- and is still continuously improving.

I wonder what’s in store for the next 10.

Wipro journey

My foundation was really on Training however, I took a chance in taking an opportunity to move to Operations as an Asst Manager in 2011 for a then growing Telco / Customer Service account. That’s when my delivery journey started until I moved back to Cebu in 2013 and progressed from one level to another. Currently, I am an Account Delivery Head for a 300 FTE engagement spanning across four different locations – Philippines, India, China, and Romania.

It looks simple and straightforward but my journey with Wipro was nothing but surprises, excitement and a whole lot of learning. In my 11 years of being in the organization, I was given the opportunity to travel to Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, and Dalian. I was able to support a number of client visits, old and new; sales proposals and solution development; certification audits; and a number of improvement initiatives; few of the experiences that I may only be able to earn from Wipro. And with the presence of horizontal and vertical lines of businesses, it is an organization that is complex and drives every employee to gear up and have a mindset of growth and adaptability. Wipro creates a platform that provides a plethora of opportunities for its workforce to create their own journey of expertise.

We also know how to have fun. In Wipro, it is always a balance between work and the right employee engagement activities – employee touchpoints within the team or location or even conducted by the Senior Leaders; rewards and recognitions; company celebrations; learning and development training sessions; fun activities; Spirit of Wipro Run, sensitization workshops, CSR activities and a whole lot more. As my span of responsibility expanded, I have also observed how Wipro evolved as a company. It has adapted into the demands of the industry and moved at a direction that is aligned into the company’s brand for its stakeholders without losing focus from the integral part of the organization – its People.

Recently, I had a fulfilling experience at work as I was given the chance to share my journey as part of the LGBTQ community during our virtual Pride celebration. And if an organization is able to recognize and respect the diversity that exists amongst its thousands of employees, then I will forever be grateful of the decision I made when I signed my offer for Wipro 11 years ago.

Wipro journey

My managers and colleagues have ever since been very supportive and understanding. I have been treated on par with others and allocated work responsibilities basis my abilities and competencies. In fact, I have switched roles and also got promoted.

Work has been greatly satisfying and I’ve grown personally and professionally.

Wipro has always been empathetic about my reasonable accommodation requirements and provided the same either when I am connected from home or visiting the office. I also feel well included in every team activity, be it fun or work, irrespective of whether it is online or in office. Due to such wonderful colleagues, I never feel I am missing out on anything even though I’m working from home on a regular basis. Working here has been great and more often than not working and interacting with everyone makes me forget that I even have a disability.

I encourage job seekers with disability to explore opportunities with Wipro, as it is a place where one can experience equality in its true sense and your voice is heard to address any gaps and eventually improve the system.

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At Wipro, I am blessed to have found supporting mentors and groups that have not only allowed me to carve out my niche in the field of technology, but enthusiastically followed my managers to effectively communicate with me, whether it is talking a bit loudly when needed or being respectful to not start a conversation when there is a lot of background noise. Such inclusive behaviour has helped me be successful at what I do and allowed me to pursue the interests that resonate with me the most. I say it’s the place to be for ambitious technologists who are rooting for each other.

Wipro journey

My father is a businessman he started to work early, not being able to finish his studies. My mother, a teacher, studied at night, after I was born. I’m the only daughter. At 17 years of age I started at the university, studying Industrial Chemistry in the day and Business Administration at night. At the age of 21, I finished both universities and looked for a job. I started in an audit company in the training area. I then participated in the company’s first trainee program and I was invited to support in recruitment. From then on, I fell in love with the area. At 23 years old I did post-graduation in HR Management, at 25 I specialized in Higher Education Methodology. I got married at 25, had a daughter at 27, I changed jobs when she was only 1 month old. I worked as a head-hunter for almost 9 years, in big companies like KPMG. I faced many barriers in an essentially male market. I returned from a trip and resigned after my daughter started to call the nanny her mother. Later I worked for a company named O Boticário, while I was pregnant with my second son at the age of 33. When I came back from my maternity leave, I was fired in a restructuring process. But I did not give up.

At the age of 34, I left my hometown - Curitiba (1.7 million inhabitants) and went to São Paulo (12 million inhabitants), leaving family and friends behind, in search of growth and development opportunities for my children’s future. I arrived without meeting many people, I grew up professionally in companies like Telefônica Group, Capgemini, SONDA. I gave employability and career classes at the university, took many specialization courses, took leadership positions, got involved in the start-up of an IT office in Brasilia, where I stayed for almost 1 year traveling weekly, leaving my children in SP. I got divorced at 40 years old, adopted a dog. I turned around, focused on work and my children, the reason of my life.

I took on the challenge of leading the Talent Acquisition area at Wipro in late 2019, managing a team of 15 people in order to speed up hiring and grow the local operation. My son was in high school and my daughter was studying psychology at the university. My parents taught me to be strong from a very young age, so every challenge I found in my career, every negative response motivated me to move forward. I raise my children the same way. When my children were little, I was shuffling between work and family. It was hard. Today they are adults and understand that everything I did was for them. In my free time, I like going to the cinema, theatre, I love staying at home watching series and I enjoy cooking for my children on weekends.

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What does your day at work look like?

Engaging with various employees to ensure a great employee experience, supporting business leaders as an enabling function, and driving various inclusion and diversity and capability building initiatives.

It's exciting work as it gives a chance to connect with many leaders.

What makes Wipro a great place to belong? I have worked for many organizations but Wipro is the best organization I have worked for thus far because of the autonomy and endless opportunities to learn.

Wipro journey

I joined Wipro in 2007 just after my marriage and since then it’s been a second home to me. I joined the CIS TA team (erstwhile TIS) as a recruiter and had the opportunity to work with different teams and leaders at that time which has been a great learning experience and gave me the platform to elevate my career.

Wipro has given me the right opportunities at the right time and the exposure to take up challenging assignments. From a junior recruiter to a lead and now as Head of TA for CIS, all the leaders have acknowledged the hard work and supported me to grow in my career.

It’s a mix bag here, a give and take kind of mutual relationship, it’s been 13+ years with Wipro and all my managers and leaders have supported me on both the fronts. You show commitment and deliver, rest assured the organization takes care of you. As a mother of twins, there have been several instances where my personal commitment was more, and the organization supported me to manage the same. One thing I would always want to highlight and thank the organization for, is the opportunity given to me to work as an onsite lead in the US when my family commitment required me to be there with my spouse. I always mention this to prospective candidates as how Wipro takes care of its employees.

Wipro journey

I joined Wipro on 1st September 2014 as the Resource Management Lead for what was then ENU Consulting. My role soon expanded to cover all onsite ENU employees. It was my first global role in an organisation as complex as Wipro so a great opportunity to learn how to work in a truly global team and what it means to have a global mind set as well as travel to Houston (I was lucky enough to go to the rodeo on one trip), the Netherlands, Bangalore and Scotland! Since then I have had the privilege to move into the Head of TA role for UK & Ireland, and now into the Head of Delivery Enablementand Talent Engineering for the geo

Every role has provided me with a growth opportunity and to build on my learnings from the previous role and throughout my career to date. I believe there are very few companies that enable you to move and grow in this way, maintain a work life balance, offer the flexibility to work at this level and be a Mum (which in my case is a balancing act with my husband to manage the chaos of 2 children, 2 dogs, 2 horses and a very naughty kitten). Of course, having a fantastic team and a great manager is also key to making it all work.

When I’m not at work, managing the household chaos or with the horses, I have a great love of outdoor sports and travel. We are a very active family and we take every opportunity to go to Europe (particularly France or Austria as I speak French and German) to ski or walk or head to Cornwall to surf. We try to plan one big trip a year.

Wipro journey

I was fortunate to be part of the Wipro Family about 14 years ago. Since then, the fabulous journey continues with success, failures and learnings, but no looking back. I joined Wipro after completing my MBA as Hiring SPOC for Data Warehousing Practice, aggressive, focused and determined to demonstrate results. In no time, I was bestowed with added responsibility of handling the BU’s - Retail/ MFG/ E&U/HLS. This enriching experience came with the opportunity of interacting with leaders like Srini Palia, NS Bala and AP. At an early stage of my career, interaction with the leadership helped in understanding the larger interest of the Organization and helped me to work as an enabler for growth of the business.

After a stint of 4 years, life took a beautiful deviation. There was a “slowdown” in the aggression and always “on the toe “recruiter suddenly became very cautious of each step! I took a maternity leave break and returned from the break with the same zeal.

I joined as a B1 Associate, handled business independently, eventually became the Team Lead, and now I’m the Tower Head for Digital. When I look back, I pause, take a deep breath and then move head high today as my journey in Wipro has been astounding. I enjoyed my successes, learnt from my failures, tweaked my ways of working, kept aggressions aside, and unlearnt the outdated and learnt new ways of working.

Exasperating! I’m sure all mothers would relate to this feeling. While always on top of work, it was imperative to extend my shoulder to my two beautiful kids, Saanvi and Aryan. I would want to thank Wipro for extending such a beautiful culture, where each mother manages to work in flexible hours to be able to take care of her family, while managing the business/work.

• Immense thanks to Vishwas, who has been instrumental and accommodating of my schedules. He had always been of the view that I was responsible and was confident that I would manage the deliverables as required. Trust entrusted was always respected, and today I stand out as an Individual who represents TA to the larger organization.
• Business Leaders / Stakeholders, who have always been supportive and integrated TA as one function, few names that needs a mention and I shall always be grateful to- Kumudha, Rajan, Alex, Chandra, DJ (Deepak Jain). Great working for them!
• Team- all my team members, without their support I would not have achieved new heights at work.
• How can I not thank my colleagues who has always been there as support- Gautam/ Mathew/Nandini/ Vishy/Sridhar/Sunil/Ramana Sir/Abhishek/Sachin/Sarah and Sai, my erstwhile boss-guide. Pooja- a special mention, as HR you have always extended a helping hand and have been thoroughly supporting.

“Owe a lot to Wipro and shall continue to do my best and always go an extra mile, because today- Srishti Lal- Digital TA Head, is only because of support and guidance from Wipro Family’!!!

Wipro journey

I joined Wipro in 2013, and it has been a wonderful experience for me. Currently, I am working as IDAM Lead in CRS for the last 2 years which has transformed me from being an individual contributor to a Leader. I look forward to constantly grow personally and professionally while learning different roles and responsibilities during team collaboration and customer interaction.

Wipro journey

As General Manager, Global Program Delivery – Cybersecurity and Risk Services, I am responsible for establishing Transition & Transformation with GO GREEN | STAY GREEN delivery parameters to meet both Wipro and customer quality standards. I have experience of 24 years in Information Technology Delivery and Cyber Security Risk Services. With 10+ years in the Banking & Financial Services Division of Wipro Technologies, my journey with Wipro has let me grow organically from Technical Lead to Project Manager, to Delivery Manager and to Account Delivery Head.

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