The programs also entice workers in a competitive market. "There's always another company that can pay them more," Kumar says, "but the university shows what else they can be doing while they're here." Wipro drops new employees who don't make the grade, eliminating risk from its hiring.
Wipro is now grappling with the sheer scale of its endeavor, as the company plans to double in size over the next three years.
The Bangalore campus gets 350 new employees every Monday; all need at least 45 full-time school days before they become billable employees--amounting to some 3,150 mandatory students at all times.
Image: Richard Grasso, (5th from left), the then chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, shakes hands with Wipro chairman Azim Premji, as Vivek Paul, (3rd from right), former vice chairman of Wipro, gives a thumbs up, at the time of Wipro's listing on the NYSE on October 19, 2000. Also seen in Dewang Mehta, the then president of Nasscom, (2nd from right). | Photograph: Mel Nudleman/AFP/Getty Images
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