01a Discover the I in Flipkart

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DISCOVER THE I IN FLIPKARTWhat makes the brightest minds join the Flipkart family.


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Everyones a dreamer. But at Flipkart,

we dont believe in just thinking, we

believe in implementing our ideas

and seeing the impact it has on the

world around us. Flipkart gives you

the perfect space to learn, grow andexercise your expertise to make

shopping delightful for everyone!

Here, you get to make an impact

everyday!

What makes Flipkart the idealplace for a self-driven, passionate

individual is that here, you grow

much more than anywhere else,

youre always building cutting-edge

technologies and whenever you build

a solution, you see the impact it has,

not just internally, but on the world

around you! Find out how Swathi,

Vikram and Prakash discovered the

endless possibilities of working with

Flipkart.

Why Join?


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Swathi pulled in to the parking lot of thenew Flipkart warehouse. It towered overher and she couldnt help but look back atthe year and a half she had been there.

When she had started, the warehouse hadjust been a tiny blimp on the radar a mere6000 square feet. But now, it had grownto 200000 square feet and she knew shedplayed a big part in bringing it to its current

state. Of course, she had an incredibleteam and everyone had played their partbut that was the thing about working here,everyone brought something to the table.Something signicant. And if she didnthave such incredible, like-minded co-workers, she knew she would never havemade it this far.

Unlike her previous workplace, Flipkartdidnt believe in just coming up with greatideas, it was about implementing themas well. Ideas werent put on hold until

Swathis story -

The Speed of Growth


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the right approvals came in from seniormanagement. Here, processes were muchquicker and people didnt have to waitlong for the green signal. They were allempowered to take decisions. That was theonly way to move forward at Flipkart. Itwas about thinking for the future, as well asfor now.

As she made her way into the new facility,Swathi couldnt help but feel silly aboutthe rst impressions shed had. Shedinitially been very skeptical. After all, theirwarehouse was tiny only 6000 squarefeet. But within her rst week, shed seenit grow and shed seen why. The peoplewho worked there were unlike anywhereelse. They were ALWAYS looking to pushthemselves and do more. Now, eighteenmonths and two promotions later, Swathiwas on top of the world and was only

looking to climb higher.

She saw her colleague Dinesh run by her.Another thing about Flipkart, nobodywalked, they all ran. Thats how excitedthey were about what they did.Two lakh square feet! Not bad eh? Swathi

grinned at Dinesh.


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He ashed her a smile, Yeah! Now to workat making it even bigger!Swathi chuckled, but she knew he was right.If you werent growing at Flipkart, you weredoing something wrong.


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When Vikram walked in to work, it was

chaotic. A section of one of the warehouses

had been burgled and a lot of packages

couldnt be accounted for.

What was causing people to panic was

the fact that they did not know what was

in the packages. Sure, there was a record

on the computer at the warehouse, but

the burglars had lifted it as well. Being

an established online market place,

warehousing an array of goods from 3rd

party vendors was a huge task. Now, nding

the items would mean going through the

entire list of orders and matching it with

the ones that had already been delivered,the ones that still had to be delivered and

the ones that were in the process of being

delivered Basically, it was a tonne of extra

work and this was unusual at Flipkart,

simply because everyone was always

working on new things or on improving the

Vikrams story -

Build New Technologies


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old ones. There wasnt really all that much

backtracking.

Vikram hadnt fully understood the

situation, because he was a part of the tech

team and he didnt involve himself much

with the logistics problems. But when he

walked into the cafeteria, he overheardsomeone who sounded quite frantic, I

dont know how were going to do this

Were probably going to undergo some

major loss Vikram was surprised when

he found that it was his cousin Rukmini

who was doing the talking. She was a

newcomer to Flipkart and Vikram had

almost forgotten that she even worked

there.

Hey Rukminiwhats wrong

When Rukmini explained the situation to

Vikram, he was surprisingly calm, Why

is that a problem? but Rukmini was

impatient, Nobody from the centre has

even checked in yetthey must be losing

their shello? she answered her phone,


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Yes, yes, tell me she walked off.

VIkram was a little confused, because hehad just designed a system that tracked

all the packages, making sure that they

were segregated according to where they

were being shipped. Finding out what was

missing shouldnt have been a problem

at all. Rukmini was just returning to herdesk, looking relieved, Ok everyone, false

alarmthe packages have all been tracked

and the insurance company has covered

us

She turned to Vikram, That was the

manager of the warehouseapparently,

one of our tech guys recently put in a

system which allowed them to track the

packages

Vikram laughed to himself as he walked

back to his desk. The tech team at Flipkart

was always creating new technologies, so

much so that sometimes, newcomers like

his cousin Rukmini, lost track of what had

been created! But that was the beauty of the

placeit was the beauty of Flipkart.


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Prakash prepared to hurry out of the

conference room. The latest Flipkart

monthly review meeting had just nished

and there was a lot of work to be done.

Ever since the review meetings had

begun, things had really picked up pace at

Flipkart. The different departments were

all on the same page and were working

towards common goals. More problemswere identied and rectied quickly, and

productivity had increased drastically.

Prakash smiled to himself. After all, it was

his pet project that made it possible for the

meetings to take place so seamlessly. Before

this, each department had its own meetingand there always existed a communication

gap between them. It wasnt possible

to have organized inter-departmental

meetings simply because different people

had different routines. There was so much

Prakashs story -

Make An Impact


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innovation that it was chaotic! Prakash

knew that the company would be a lot more

productive if things were more organized andthats where the challenge lay. He spent the

next couple of weeks analyzing the various

departments and created a matrix that would

track routines, projects and made it possible

to keep an account of who was working on

what. Using his creation, it was possible to

have only the relevant people for a specic

meeting.

Flipkart was productive, but Prakash made it

a little better. He remembered how surprised

he had been when the department heads all

listened to his suggestion and unanimously

agreed that it was a good idea. That was one

of the great things about working at Flipkart,

everyone was open to new ideas and there

were very approachable, irrespective of whatposition they held or what department they

worked in.

Prakash snapped out of his daydream. Why

hadnt the conference room emptied out yet?

Why was everyone standing aroundHe


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froze when he realized they were all staring

at him. Before he could say anything, one of

the heads walked up to him and shook hishand, Prakash, Id like to say something

to you on behalf of all of us Prakash

looked around. Everybody was smiling at

him and nodding, In fact, we must have

said this a lot sooneranyway, we shall not

keep you for very long. What we wanted

to say is that, over the past couple of years,

Flipkart has grown at an incredible rate and

so has our offering. He handed Prakash a

small gift-wrapped box, On behalf of all of

us, and everyone working at Flipkart, we

would like to say thank you

Prakash stood, gaping as everyone took

turns to shake his hand. He had never

actually realized the magnitude of his

impact on the organization, but now that it

had put into words, he felt overwhelmed.His small initiative hadnt gone unnoticed.


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