Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Dichotomy (Part II)

Maturity takes time. Rapid growth has a way of confusing things. It is interesting to see the ways in which this manifests itself. Amardeep took me to see the second location that Manhattan Associates set up shop in India.The International Technology Park - Bangalore (ITPB, or sometimes ITPL) houses many, many companies. It is truly HUGE. The number of workers it takes to service this many people brings a lot of the uneducated people from the surrounding areas into this area, among those with very advanced technical degrees.

Manhattan's first venture in India was in the early to mid 1990s; I know a person or two who hired into that office, which is now closed. Their second shop started around 2002 or 2003. I know some people here who worked in that office before our first wholly-owned building was opened, back in 2005(ish). But there's been so much turnover in the India office that people with that kind of tenure are few and far between.

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