The Hindu Business Line : Sasken starts Pune centre

SASKEN Communication Technologies Ltd., has kick started its operations in Pune. This is the second facility of the company, the first being in Bangalore.

Talking to Business Line, Mr Raj Datar, Head of the Pune Development Centre, said the Pune centre would exclusively work on the VLSI chip design as also the analog and mixed signal designs.

The centre would also be contributing its strength for the other projects currently being handled by the Bangalore facility. The facility, which became operational in July end this year, currently has a staff strength of 70 and is expected to increase to 220 people by end of December 2005.

He noted that since the chip design is a niche segment, the company for recruitment, apart from the other traditional channels of hiring such campus recruitment, is also utilising employee referral campaigns, lateral hires through consultants, third party job fairs etc.

Mr N. Hari Iyer, Vice-President and Culture Officer, noted that a survey conducted by the Dataquest IDC had ranked Sasken at the sixth position (overall) in terms of employee parameters. It has been rated 100 per cent in areas such as open policies and processes, open to ideas and suggestions and positive work environment. He noted that the company had touched revenue of $33million for the last fiscal and is estimating a growth of close to 70 per cent for the current fiscal.