Madras Quiz

Source: From LinkedIn by Ramkumar Ramamurthy of Catalincs.

1. An IT company is approaching 100,000 employees in Chennai. Identify.

2. There are six educational institutions in India where the Top 5 IT companies have individually made more than 1,000 job offers in one or more annual campus recruitment seasons. Five of these educational institutions are in Tamil Nadu, and four in Chennai. Which are they?

3. Sports legends Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Virendra Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambir, Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and hundred others have leaned on this company for improving their game and for data-driven decision making. This sports technology, performance and analytics company in Chennai supports more than 50 sports bodies in the world. Name?

4. An actor who has acted in more than 25 films across Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam languages, and won many state and national film awards, runs a successful IT/BPO company in Chennai. Who?

5. Only one Fortune 500 company – across industries – was incubated in India. And that IT company was incubated in Chennai. And that is?

6. Often considered the largest free online repository of courses in engineering, basic sciences, humanities and management – with more than 56,000 hours of video content – it is managed by an educational institution in Chennai. Importantly, enrolling in and learning from these courses is entirely free. Which one?

7. A Fortune 20 manufacturing company set up its Global Capability Center (GCC) in Chennai 25 years ago. Even after the company closed its manufacturing operations in the city, its GCC continues to grow and scale. Today, this GCC has over 11,000 employees! Name?

8. A fourth of the Chairpersons of NASSCOM – since its founding – have had their education in Chennai, and by extension, Tamil Nadu. Who are they?

9. Two of the largest SaaS companies from India have their origins in Chennai. Names?

10. Because of the rapid growth of IT companies in Chennai, in the late nineties, the Tamil Nadu government did something interesting to turbo-charge the growth of IT in the state. This move, the first-of-its-kind in India, was soon replicated by other states in the country. What?

11. The largest number of employees that an IT company has in a Tier-2 location in India is in Coimbatore – over 15,000 and counting. This company has its India headquarters in Chennai. Name it?

12. While Chennai is known for GCCs across financial services, manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, pharma, retail, telecom, energy and utilities, four of the top five global shipping container companies have their GCCs in Chennai and are growing. Names?

Answers to Quiz

1. Tata Consultancy Services.

2. VIT, Sastra, SRM, Amrita, and the three constituent entities of Anna University (CoE, MIT and ACTech). It’s because of this quality at scale, the best of the Indian and multinational IT companies as well as GCCs make a beeline for the talent from this state.

3. SportsMechanics.

4. Arvind Swamy and Talent Maximus.

5. Cognizant. Only companies that are incorporated in the U.S. make it to the Fortune 500 list. Cognizant started as an in-house technology arm of the reputable U.S. headquartered Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Corp., with almost all its employees in India. It then started serving clients outside of the D&B group and entered the Fortune 500. It’s because of this unique evolution, it happens to be the only company in the Fortune 500 list to be incubated in India.

6. IIT Madras (NPTEL platform).

7. Ford Motor Company.

8. K.V. Ramani (Future Software), Jerry Rao (MPhasis), R. Chandrasekaran (Cognizant), Krishnakumar Natarajan (Mindtree), N. Chandrasekaran (TCS), Keshav Murugesh (WNS), Krishnan Ramanujam (TCS) and Rajesh Nambiar (Cognizant).

9. Zoho and Freshworks.

10. Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to announce an IT Policy, as early as 1997. This was replicated by other states later.

11. Cognizant.

12. MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd.

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