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Thought this was interesting. Across 160 teams of researchers, just about all failed to make good life outcome predictions on things like GPA, evictions, layoffs, and others. Data followed 4.5k families across 15 years, with 13k features (varied over time). Haven't looked at it directly yet, but will be turning the docs and data inside out... In the meantime, authors claim this as showing the limits of ML. Oh, and it's published in PNAS, so you know there's some big publication energy there.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8398
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This is not surprising.
I suspect Wipro, like the other WITCHA firms, are toast. AI is going to kill the majority of their businesses.
Personally, I would take this as an opportunity to take a step back, think about what is likely to be successful in a post AI world and what Wipro would have brand permission to do, and aggressively execute on building that.
Also - what’s a senior partner? How is it different from a partner? And what does that even mean in a corporate environment like Wipro vs a partnership?
Sounds about right.
Suggest you run for your life then I suppose. Sorry you’re in this spot.
Dude a quick google search would have told you this - wipro, Tata etc are all like this - jump, jump now !
I feel like we have monthly "Should I join a WITCH?" posts where someone gets the spiel about how they're moving up the value chain, looking to aggressively build new practice areas, etc. The overwhelming response is always "run!" which gets ignored and then a few months later the "they lied about everything, it's just a race to the bottom bodyshop, the talent pool is non-existent, the culture is disgusting, and they only wanted to hire me to strip my contact/network" post. Maybe we should make a sticky for this topic.
Though I have not worked for Wipro, I have friends who do in the US, Europe, and Australia. This is probably true for most India based service delivery companies, especially the micromanagement piece. The micro management seems to run deep. A recent story that stuck with me was as told by a US Partner in a different India based firm about the obsession of her India delivery leadership with developer and delivery metrics based on Lines of Code (LoC), a measure most tech leaders in US will likely consider obsolete in today's AI assisted highly polygot architecture.
Replace Wipro with “Accenture” and you’ll get the results.
Yup. Sounds like wipro.
3/4 of its services and workforce will be wiped out by 2030
Sorry to hear you’ve had to learn the hard way. All these attempts at ‘pivoting’ are strategic nonsense. If you’re pivoting into an underserved market, then the logic is sound. Trying to pivot into an already crowded market without the brand halo required to serve it is just business school case study nonsense.
WIPRO = did you try to power off? If not hold down the power button for 60 seconds. Anybody that thinks that an Indian company provides any value must be from a different planet.
I have a feeling that all the new ACN -> Wipro “leaders” are not top tier and were most likely let go (terminated).
Sharing my experience as I did join Wipro as a Partner in consulting from a non-witch firm. The first year was decent. They did pay well and I enjoyed what I was doing, had leadership sponsorship and sold consulting work, not body shop staff aug. However the culture and work environment was one of the worst I experienced in my career. Too many “shady” people and “snakes” I had to deal with on a daily basis and these included peers/leaders within and outside of consulting. During my time many people were let go in less than 12m of joining as they were not a fit, didn’t sell or wasn’t billable. There was on-going pressure to be billable where many “partner level” ended up 100% billable to avoid getting let go and couldn’t sell. This cycle was year over year along with cost pressure and was challenging to even get approval to travel to visit clients etc. I don’t regret my decision to join Wipro but I wouldn’t recommend if you are at the big 4 or at a non-witch firm. Most people who are joining do appear coming from ACN and were let go and if they do bring value - TBD. My advice is avoid if you can, however if you do not have another opportunity in the current market condition, and they are paying well than take the risk for 1-2 years but know you will not be happy and can hurt your career / next role.
What did you do next? They actually have a good F500 client base and I am also selling real consulting work. However, the org isn’t built for that, the environment is super toxic, etc. I don’t know if I’d recommend it right now if you really need a job because it feels like this experiment is going to end soon and it’s not stable unless you can come in as a partner and be immediately billable.
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Instead of a wipeout, I think there are a few huge pivots coming.
Don’t see signs of anything I was sold on and don’t know how pivots could fix it.