Where to start? I would absolutely NOT recommend working here to anyone in my network who does not need H1B visa continuation. If you are used to Western firms ways of working like the Big 4 or MBB or Accenture/IBM, Wipro and its Indian competitors will be a complete and total business culture shock for the worse.
Management holds H1B visas over the heads of many of my Indian colleagues, with the elusive carrot of greencard sponsorship, and for them, uses the visa as justification for lower salaries and/or no raises.
Internal processes are ludicrous and speaks to a company culture where no one trusts anyone. Raising a business travel request, even for consultant weekly commute to client, is an exercise in frustration and frequently request is approved 24-48 hours before departure. This then forces you to choose the most expensive airfare, even though the firm says to buy 14 days in advance to "save money" (it's not possible to buy airfare without an approved travel request). Before, the expense report procedure was equally stupid and time consuming: all receipts, no matter dollar value, must be glued (not stapled, not taped) to 8.5x11 sheets of paper and snail-mailed to US HQ for scanning and processing. Now, there's soft copy expenses, but all receipts must still be submitted.
Performance reviews, promotions and raises: There's no clear path to promotion and raises. We have quarterly performance reviews that serve no purpose: a positive review has no influence on your promotion or raises, but a negative review is grounds to deny promotion/raises and even for termination. Should you be lucky enough to get a promotion, you can be assured you will not get a raise, as the firm considers your promotion the "reward". Should you ever get a raise, at least in Consulting, it will only be 1-3%. Ever. Total opposite of typical Big 4/MBB consulting raises of 5% minimum annually.
Consulting Services salaries: generally 20% below market compared to other big firms. Negotiate your salary correctly off the bat because you'll never see a raise again. Be wary of HR recruiters pulling shady maneuvers to lock you out of negotiating room by saying that they've "already submitted the number" when they actually can't without your consent.
Bench policy: If you are unassigned to a project and on the bench, there is an auto-termination policy. It used to be if you were benched for 60 days, you could be terminated. Now, it's unclear how long the bench time is, and this applies to anyone - onshore H1B employees have been given little to no notice to pack up their life in the US and go back to India.
Project staffing and resourcing: Sales force have absolutely nothing to do with the project delivery, so Sales can overpromise to a client and undersell on fees without ever having to suffer through delivering an impossible project like that. Projects are understaffed, all the time. One Consulting resource on a project typically has to do at least 1.5 FTE workload because they're never staffed adequately.
Basically, you're always overworked and underpaid in Consulting.
Location: Wipro really pushes relocation and pays for those expenses, except this is basically the poor man's way of getting around the need for the large physical office footprint that the Big 4 has. It used to be you could work remotely from home when not at the client site, but there's been noise from the CEO's office recently about following IBM's remote work reversal policy. Whether that includes IBM's "move or lose your job" clause remains to be seen.
Coworkers: Although generally bright, there's very much the "headshake" culture where everything gets nodded at and "yessed" and very little follow-through actually happens.
