Indian consulting firms have no doubt made a large impact in the US corporate space yet KPIT continues to sit at the bottom and lag in revenue and retention behind all firms. While they do have some Fortune 100/500 clients but it’s the type of work the other firms aren’t necessarily crying over or desire in the first place. Expect to get projects that have minimal impact, are staff aug in nature and mundane. Other firms are large enough to have pools of talent to pull from to staff projects, KPIT just doesn’t have the pipeline or resources to maintain the same so if you’re looking at being on the bench for over 2 weeks, you should be looking for a new job weeks before your project ends.
There is minimal communications from executives so to get a pulse on how the company is doing relative to its strategy, you’re better off reading analysts’ reports if you want insights to KPIT corporate. If you are US based, do not expect to get strong off-shore support doing their off hours, that means US based resources bend to IST time. This is very much an Indian firm, if you’re born in the US, your advancement has a hard ceiling and female consultants are extremely few and far between.
Work/life balance. While consulting is not 9 to 5 or even 8 to 6, you’re going to find even less time for family and friends. If you calculate vacation against all possible billable hours within a year, you will come in under expectations. That means if you take all your vacation, you will not hit the goal for billable hours for the year. Not published or communicated but it’s the expectation. And don’t forget training. You will also need to complete required trainings and maintain billable hours. Internal systems for time reporting, expense reporting, and others are terrible, difficult to use and not intuitive. More of your personal time you’ll be spending on others things besides billable work.
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