DISCOVER THE I IN FLIPKART

What makes the brightest minds join the Flipkart family.

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 and
exercise your expertise to make
shopping delightful for everyone!
Here, you get to make an impact
everyday!
What makes Flipkart the ideal
place 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?
Swathi pulled in to the parking lot of the
new Flipkart warehouse. It towered over
her and she couldnt help but look back at
the year and a half she had been there.
When she had started, the warehouse had
just been a tiny blimp on the radar a mere
6000 square feet. But now, it had grown
to 200000 square feet and she knew shed
played a big part in bringing it to its current
state. Of course, she had an incredible
team and everyone had played their part
but that was the thing about working here,
everyone brought something to the table.
Something signifcant. And if she didnt
have such incredible, like-minded co-
workers, she knew she would never have
made it this far.
Unlike her previous workplace, Flipkart
didnt believe in just coming up with great
ideas, it was about implementing them
as well. Ideas werent put on hold until
Swathis story -
The Speed of Growth
the right approvals came in from senior
management. Here, processes were much
quicker and people didnt have to wait
long for the green signal. They were all
empowered to take decisions. That was the
only way to move forward at Flipkart. It
was about thinking for the future, as well as
for now.
As she made her way into the new facility,
Swathi couldnt help but feel silly about
the frst impressions shed had. Shed
initially been very skeptical. After all, their
warehouse was tiny only 6000 square
feet. But within her frst week, shed seen
it grow and shed seen why. The people
who worked there were unlike anywhere
else. They were ALWAYS looking to push
themselves and do more. Now, eighteen
months and two promotions later, Swathi
was on top of the world and was only
looking to climb higher.
She saw her colleague Dinesh run by her.
Another thing about Flipkart, nobody
walked, they all ran. Thats how excited
they were about what they did.
Two lakh square feet! Not bad eh? Swathi
grinned at Dinesh.
He fashed her a smile, Yeah! Now to work
at making it even bigger!

Swathi chuckled, but she knew he was right.
If you werent growing at Flipkart, you were
doing something wrong.
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, fnding
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
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 overheard
someone 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,
Yes, yes, tell me she walked off.
VIkram was a little confused, because he
had 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 her
desk, 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.
Prakash prepared to hurry out of the
conference room. The latest Flipkart
monthly review meeting had just fnished
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 problems
were identifed and rectifed 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 meeting
and 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
innovation that it was chaotic! Prakash
knew that the company would be a lot more
productive if things were more organized and
thats 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 specifc
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 what
position 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
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 his
hand, 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.