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Bangalore: After being acquired by Tech Mahindra six months ago, Satyam Computer Services (now Mahindra Satyam) will hire 130 people for different positions. This hiring is likely to be done from outside the company. Also, the IT giant HCL has planned to hire 110 professionals for its Polish operations.
"We will hire IT professionals to increase our strength from 140 to 250 in our Polish operations in the next one-year. We plan to expand our operations in Poland as the market there is developing rapidly," said Siddhartha S, General Manager (Global Delivery Centers), HCL.
For Mahindra Satyam, Hari Thalapalli, Chief People and Marketing Officer, Mahindra Satyam said, "We got an approval for external hiring on October 4. These are speciality skills, which are not there in the virtual pool and are not trainable internally. These junior and middle level hirings will largely be from India. Besides, we will be hiring one or two senior level people from the market for select areas."
Mahindra Satyam lost 200-250 client companies after the confession by Ramalinga Raju that he had cooked the company's books for several years. Today, the company has 400 customers globally. "We have so far won 30 new logos, most of them single-digit million dollar contracts, and 15 new orders in Oracle implementation in 15 weeks. There is a complete strategy that has been laid out to regain lost contracts and we are working towards it," said Thalapalli.
On the cultural front and people-related issues, Thalapalli said that the company recently launched employee connect programmes, including one in which the Chief Executive Officer, C P Gurnani, walks across different floors and talks to people and listens to their issues.
"We recently did something called 'Shadow Board', typically for associates (staffers) who have 2-6 years of work experience. We have selected 8-10 people who act as board members, who will identify problems and bring forth unconventional ways of resolving the problems - including how to procure new business and rebuild brand. Clearly, now there is a greater amount of connect between the leadership and associates than earlier," said Thalapalli.
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