A good number of those students are growth drivers at Kuliza today.

Bringing Trainees In

With trainees you have a set of bright, energetic, talented but impressionable minds. They present a huge opportunity for organizations to present themselves in front of fresh pass-outs of undergrad and grad programs. Trainees are given to communicating more frequently to their peers in other companies. This is where comparisons between what is perceived as the culture of a corporation are rife.

At Kuliza, we ensure that the trainees feel that they have a college environment after college. They feel that they are with friends. We don’t have to work hard for that. With all the bean bags, easy chairs et al that are anyway a part of our development center, we always have that young and peppy feel about our office.

What is important is that the trainees learn certain things together. Soft skill programs, personality tests, group dynamic exercises and team building assignments are conducted with gusto and lapped up with greater enthusiasm. The practice of learning from your peers and the Kuliza truism that your boss is really your friend, philosopher and guide is brought into action.

Creating Great Corporate Citizens

In molding trainees not only do we creating great resources for us, we also create many Kuliza brand ambassadors. We know that in doing small things right with our trainee and trainee mentorship program, we are shaping the future in a big way.

We believe in creating great technologists, great innovators and great business people from the raw talent that we hire. We have been seeing our efforts materialize. It is immensely satisfying and urges you to go on and do more.

There are students who are just concerned about ‘cracking’ that tough test that we administer to screen talent. There are others who read up every word of our website and all associated terms and are full of questions during our pre-placement talks and in interviews. Then there are the geeks who have their notions about how we should run our business. And there are also those mavericks who do not know care to know our name or business even when they fill the auditorium where we introduce ourselves.

We love all of them. A good number of us were like a good number of them. So, we tell ourselves that if could come this long a way and still see a great road ahead, we can be reasonably sure that all these undergrad and grad students have the spark in them that will help us and our clients grow.

Simple Process

We respect the process the institution lays out for us. It has been a grand company introduction in some renowned grad schools and talking to a large body of students. In some places it has also been setting up a stall and conversing one on one with students.

1. Students who sign-up for our placement process have to take a test. This test is usually pretty tough. It rewards a sound knowledge of fundamentals and quick and accurate, multi-dimensional thinking
2. The test is a screen. We then talk to a short-list of students. These talks can run into multiple rounds – three, five or in some cases seven.
3. Each set of rounds creates a short-list till we get to the final list.

What do we look for?

1. We look for what students have done in their academics and related activities
2. We look for well-rounded personalities. So great extra-curricular activities and great academics is a great combination
3. We also look for what the student can do – the potential, the drive, the energy, the team spirit, the creativity and more

We look for people who can live with our motto of growing with our clients. We look for people who can grow with us.

To be able to work hard and with great efficiency, our teams need to continue to have a sharp intellectual edge. In addition we, as an organization, also need to keep learning from people around us and our business our ecosystem. We also need to find ways in which exception talent outside Kuliza is able to engage with us in a mutually beneficial relationship. This is our talent engagement process. 

Engaging Internal Talent

Training in technical and soft skills is the order of the day and we are forever striving to induct the most effective mechanisms of providing better intellectual stimulus to our staff in ways that outclass what our competitors do.

The other major parameter that differentiates us is that team learning is institutionalized in Kuliza. We take pride in being the true and upcoming enterprise that has espoused the concept of enterprise 2.0 and collaborative work and learning in the enterprise.

Our teams learn as they work. We learn from our peers, our reports and our bosses. We learn so that we get better with every passing day.

Engaging External Talent

We learn from all sources and continuously engage with experts in all fields – technical, research, managerial and more. Regular guest lectures, participations in seminars and forums serve as great enablers in this process.

We also strive to give back to the community. We try to tell professionals around us about what we learn while we work and build our clients and Kuliza. We use social media and a on the ground interactions to learn along with a large community of great professionals who work and enjoy growth and creativity in whatever they do.

All of this makes us become better professionals with greater energy. We direct this energy in being growth drivers for our clients.

What We Expect

Technical abilities, skills of working in open source or proprietary technologies, architecting and design skills, ability to think about the entire product life cycle while maintaining a business savvy approach and leadership are all attributes in a team at Kuliza.

We expect that you should be able to stand up to every word that you have written in your resume. By this we mean that even when we cross-check your references, we should be able to verify what you have said. We expect a sound knowledge of fundamentals, the right attitude to work in growing teams, the ability to look into the future while developing products, always think about the bigger picture and think from the client’s shoes.

What Should You Expect

Amid all the grilling and informality expect the best professional ethics from all our interviewers. We are an equal opportunity provider and do not differentiate on any count other than the points of excellence that we have mentioned above.

The Process

Now that we have talked about things that are the most important to us, here is our process:

1. We scan through your resume for a fit
2. In case we decide that you are better suited for other organizations, we tell you the exact reasons why we think so
3. If you are present in the same city as we are or are open to travel, we would love to meet you in person. Otherwise the first few rounds are telephonic
4. We ensure that different team members talk to you so that we understand you better and you are able to gauge the nature of the work and the team – that helps both of us in taking decisions
5. If you clear the screen rounds and subsequent ones, we make it a point that you get a well-rounded big picture view from the hiring manager.
6. If at any stage, in between, we feel that with your interests and expertise, you could contribute better elsewhere (in a different team at Kuliza or other organizations), we tell you about it
7. When you are made an offer, we ensure that parameters on which you need to base your decision of joining us are laid out and that we are available and prepared for any of your questions
8. We want a fully satisfied professional joining us. That is the best known driver for any kind of growth

Feel free to write to careers@kuliza.com

Now you are seated at the reception and wondering what would life at Kuliza be.

Simple, Breezy Paperwork

Our joining formalities are simple. We have tested your professional integrity in our rigorous process. Therefore, after we have collected some absolutely essential information, the rest of the paper work is a breeze.

Making You Feel Easy

There is a lot of buzz about you even before you join. Your team is eager to meet you. You have a buddy assigned – let’s call her Sarah. Sarah shall show you your workplace, ensure that the admin team has your machine and office desk ready, that you have a Skype ID, your ID card and that you are fully acquainted with our internal processes and portals. We have simple shared processes.

Easy at Work

Our work processes are strict. That is expected because a host of Fortune 500 companies run software products, which we build for them, on our own servers. That calls for some product engineering discipline. Sarah tells you about all of that so that you can instantly feel a part of the vibrant software product development culture at Kuliza.

Easy All Round

Team Kuliza calls office a home away from home. A well stocked cafeteria, sports, bean bags to flop on a discuss designs, write code and relax – Sarah and your team members show you all of this. Our CEO, Anand shares his vision for Kuliza with you.

At Kuliza we have a shared vision. We expect you to contribute to this vision and build upon it further. That calls for a lot of ownership and responsibility and promises tremendous opportunities for growth. Welcome to Kuliza !