Well! Quite a vast and different atmosphere and a new experience! The big building, where its entrance is just opposite KPMG entrance, its 6 floors, meeting rooms, cafeteria (atrium!), vending machines, pigeon holes (small dedicated shelfs for your mail), a post room, 6 lifts, sitting space booking machines (one book their seat in advance, even on the pwc site!),online time and expense booking,about 600 people, 6-8 assurance groups, seating space together for each group, common sitting area, yellow area for small meetings, discussions, relaxing, career coaches, social gatherings, group parties, christmas parties, hubs (small area for printer, xerox machines, fax, stationaries ), internal mails (peer to peer mails within same office or peer offices) etc.
Technology: Virtual Private Network (VPN) . One can access office network from anywhere with the help of your GUID and PIN.One has a particular application in the laptop! One can access anything as in LAN. Wireless internet cards for a few! Online real time replications!
Office culture: Puntuality (reach before time, and all do), 8-10 hrs of work a day, strict 5 day working, only work during office time (No internet and chatting over phone), regular social gatherings, monitoring of one's objective setting and performances with their career coaches, understand what one wants to do and why!!building a career path, healthy team discussions at all levels and with all levels, friendly interactions with all levels, making coffee,tea etc for all in team (as per turns :)), responsible working even by the lowest level staff (building career seriously :)) etc.
The above characteristics are maybe evident in most of the corporate offices. But since I am coming from a smaller setup at Home I was obviously amazed! So far as culture is concerned, partly not evident anywhere in Corporate India , am sure! We need to pick certain good aspects like planning, management skills, time sense, less of take it easy attitude, people friendly attitudes and am sure India will have the world class , the BEST corporate culture!!
However the greater aspects of Indian people and Indian Professionals including certain drawbacks in my other post 'Indians'...Dont miss it!!!
