What is the nature of job/projects to which I will be assigned?
Patni’s service offerings to its global clients include application development, application maintenance and support, Packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services.
As we follow a verticalised go-to-market approach, the industry solutions range from Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecom, Product Engineering, Independent Software Vendors, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Energy & Utilities, and Logistics & Transportation. The technologies that cut across these verticals are in the sphere of e-business, business intelligence, engineering services, embedded software, verification & validation and enterprise application solutions. Depending on your experience and profile, you will be assigned responsibilities in any of the above mentioned technology or industry verticals. The sheer number of projects across diverse geographies and verticals gives every employee unique opportunities to improve business processes with the help of technology. |
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Will I undergo any software training after my exams and before I join Patni? If yes, for how long
will be the training?
Yes, there will be an initial 10 week-long training at our facilities in Mumbai/ Pune. This is a comprehensive training programme covering one of the four major technologies- IBM Mainframe, Client Server, E-Com and Systems. This will be a full time 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, 10 weeks programme. Within one month from completion of the training, a fresh engineer is put on a global project in any offshore location. |
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What is the level of exposure to cutting-edge technologies and applications at Patni?
Patni offers its clients not just solutions but works with them to help them achieve a competitive advantage provided through its various technology and delivery innovation initiatives. To achieve this, Patni has created five technology-focused CoEs or Centers of Excellence to keep track of emerging technologies that would help our clients get a better ROI. Product and Technology Innovation (PTI) group is one such Group, which serves as a conduit for looking ahead of the technology spectrum. This group is instrumental in working on cutting-edge technologies such as UWB, DSPs, data mining and speech recognition. This group is also responsible for generating white papers and methodologies and developing products/tools to support these technology initiatives. The PTI group is at the forefront of developing domain knowledge and best industry practices for emerging technologies such as RFID and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). |
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What does PPP stand for at Patni?
The concept of Patni Preparatory Programme (PPP) aims at imparting initial training to the participants before they become employees of the company. This facilitates the participants to gainfully use their free time before employment. This also benefits the organization since it helps us get ready-to-use trained resources for our projects. Under this programme, the organization imparts training to the participants without charging any fees. At the same time, there is no salary/stipend paid for this period to the participants. However, when the person actually joins the organization, a one time joining incentive is paid along with the first salary. |
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Does a talented employee get to work on multiple projects?
Growing and nurturing talent is a way of life at Patni. Talent, latent or explicit, is identified in every employee and its realization is facilitated through opportunities and encouragement. One of the crucial aspects of professional development of the employee is to make him/her a part of challenging projects at the beginning of his/her career. As a team member moves ahead in his/her career, he/she gets to be part of multiple projects, which ensures learning and development. |
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Can meritorious post-graduates from other non-technical streams be a part of Patni given its scale and cross-industry exposure?
To enhance Patni’s capabilities to execute large end-to-end projects, people with domain expertise who belong to non-technical streams are recruited. The objective of creating ‘productised’ solutions is fulfilled by making employees having expertise in specific industries or functions, a part of the solutions team. |
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Is there a differential in salary based on the rating of the college?
Depending on the rating of the college, there is a demarcation in the salaries offered to the campus recruits. In descending order of rating, the following is the categorization of the colleges/institutions: |
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IITs (including IISc & BITS Pilani) |
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NITs |
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Others |
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How long is the probation period at Patni?
Campus recruits (freshers) have one year of probation, while employees with over one year of experience on joining are appointed on probation for a period of six months. |
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How are increments determined at Patni?
A high performance work culture is inculcated at Patni, by anchoring a major part of the annual increments to the performance of the employee. In addition to this, the compensation team conducts an in-depth market study using different measuring tools and engaging professional independent agencies to collect and analyze data within the industry to arrive at competitive compensation benchmarking. Based on these inputs, viz., individual performance of the employees (performance & potential ratings), the company’s ability to sustain the cost, and the results of the benchmarking study, the annual raise is decided for every employee. All such revisions are communicated through individual letters addressed to the employees. |
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Is there a mechanism to upgrade skills of employees through training on new technologies?
Learning and development is fostered within the organization with a view to align individual aspiration to grow and organizational need for skill upgradation. This is done through robust systems and processes. Development needs of individuals are identified using various modes such as performance appraisal systems and also from on-the-job requirements or role changes, if any. The organization helps individuals enhance their knowledge, skills and competencies to effectively carry out current and anticipated future responsibilities.
These are imparted through a combination of on-the-job, internal and external training programmes. |
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Does Patni provide its employees opportunities for higher studies?
The organization believes in fostering a long-term relationship with each employee, taking care of their aspirations, which include their need to develop personally and professionally. As an offshoot of this philosophy, the company sponsors employees for higher education to facilitate achievement of higher proficiencies. This is turn helps the company enhance its skill pool and meet future business requirements.
The various initiatives and programmes available at Patni are: |
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4 year MS Programme with BITS Pilani for B.Sc graduates |
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2 year MS Programme with BITS Pilani for Engineering graduates |
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e-MBA from IIM-Kozhikode |
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‘Patni Managerial Excellence Program (PMEP)’ at IIM-Ahmedabad. |
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| All these programmes are designed to give opportunities to employees to enhance their current knowledge and skills through formal education and training. |
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