eBay, PayPal India ‘Uploads’ Fresh Engineering Graduates
Bangalore, India, July 29, 2014: eBay Inc. today announced the recruitment of around 100 graduates, largely from tier 1 engineering colleges. Of these recruits, a majority will work with the PayPal India Development Center and the remaining with the eBay Product Development Center – at their Chennai and Bangalore offices.
The fresh recruits are currently undergoing a gold-standard induction programme, which is a 5-week-long boot camp – unique to the IT industry. The first week of the program called ‘UPLOAD’ includes campus-to-corporate workshops for skill building, customer-centric design workshops, programming exercises, and innovative real-time problem solving projects and presentations. This is coupled with fun activities for team building such as ice-breaker sessions, solving murder mysteries, and quad biking. The new employees have been grouped into cross-functional teams that will offer solutions for some of today’s toughest industry concerns and customer problems. Their ideas will be presented to the top management, with the most viable and effective solutions being passed on for further development. This not only provides an opportunity for fresh graduates to come up with ideas for practical problems and real issues, but also helps in boosting their confidence, improving their communication skills, and exposing them to top management right in the first few weeks of employment.
“At PayPal, we tap into the bright minds of our young talent right from the start as we believe that innovation and free thinking play a pivotal role in our global success. At the same time, we believe in grooming them for success. Unlike others in the industry, our first-time employees are exposed to tough situations and real adversity during the boot camp – only to emerge wiser, stronger and more confident,” said Anupam Pahuja, General Manager, PayPal India Development Centers.
“We are thrilled to onboard this year’s fresh batch of new hires, who are being trained to work on global projects. Year on year, our fresh graduate hires have done exceptionally well in our internal global company-wide initiatives. Be it hack-a-thons, idea generation contests or innovation competitions, they have brought us top honors for India with their exemplary passion, energy and creativity,” added Mr. Pahuja.
PayPal India has also recruited more than 30% of its new hires this year from the group of graduates who had previously interned with the company. PayPal’s intensive internship programme has helped the organization springboard new employees into the company as they are already accustomed to its culture and are aware of the opportunities it provides, well before they accept the offer.
“One of the major challenges that any company faces with fresh graduates is quick assimilation into the way a company operates, including knowing its people, learning about its culture, and feeling accepted and becoming a part of the organization in a short span of time,” says Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, Director – Human Resources, PayPal India. “UPLOAD is one such programme to address this challenge as it not only acts as a platform for the recruits to bond quickly with their peers across countries, but also instills in them the feeling of being part of a larger global organization and reiterates the company’s interest in their long-term future.”
The graduates will undergo a rigorous four-week integrated learning programme after the first week of UPLOAD, which complements their transition from campus life to corporate career.
