Microsoft India: A vista unlike any other The software giant from Redmond makes a stunning entry at #1. Quite a feat for a corporation that runs six different units in India. Snapshot Total employees: 5,000 plus Average age: 30 Attrition rate: 7.2 per cent Male:Female ratio: 8:1 Average career tenure: 4.13 years HR cost: Rs 227.3 crore Promotion rate: 24.73 per cent Training budget: Rs 54.6 lakh Training man-days: 12,270
Microsoft's Hyderabad campus, which accounts for more than half of the company’s employees in India and houses three of its six business units (Microsoft Corporation India, Microsoft Research India, Microsoft Global Technical Support Centre, Microsoft India Development Centre, Microsoft IT and Microsoft Global Services Centre India), has a college campus feel to it, with new recruits sporting long hair and carrying musical instruments or sports gear.