Tata Consultancy Service

We have been here at 119/1 on Purasawakkam High Road for a while now. It’s a busy part of Kelleys, so there is always a lot of noise outside from the traffic and the shops. Most of us come in early to beat the worst of the heat, though it doesn't always work. The building itself is okay, nothing too fancy, but it gets the job done for the kind of technical work we handle every day. There are rows of desks and plenty of wires tucked under them. Sometimes the elevator acts up, so some of us just take the stairs to stay awake. It’s a lot of sitting in front of screens and typing out code or checking systems. We take our tea breaks down the street because the tea there is better than what we make in the pantry. It’s just how things are here. We spend our hours looking at data and trying to make things run right for the people who need it. Most of the people working here live nearby in Chennai, so we talk about the local news or the weather quite a bit. It’s a regular office where people work hard, then head home to their families. You can hear the buses honking all afternoon. We don’t have a big reception area, just enough space to get inside and get to our desks. It’s a practical place to work and we’ve gotten used to the rhythm of the neighborhood.