FlipTales Archives - Flipkart Stories

March 7, 2019

#LikeAWoman: Flipsters celebrate their role-model women colleagues

Role models. Mentors. Leaders. Innovators. Confidantes. The women at Flipkart are all this and so much more! This Women’s Day, we asked Flipsters to nominate the women who inspire them every day. Read their heartwarming stories

FlipTales

August 9, 2018

Sophia Stephen

Work-life integration & nerves of steel – meet Big Billion Boss Smrithi Ravichandran

From leading categories to starting bank partnerships and weaving the Big Billion Days story together, Smrithi Ravichandran has donned many hats in her 7 years at Flipkart. Here, the Flipkart veteran and IIM-K gold-medalist talks about the mantra of integration and Flipkart's culture-policy sweet spot that's helping its women employees thrive.

FlipTales

November 22, 2017

Jishnu Murali

Customer Care Heroes – How these Flipsters made customers smile

Customer First is not just a Flipkart value, it's a tradition and a practice. Read about how these Customer Care Heroes put aside everything to rush to the aid of their customers.

FlipTales

April 26, 2017

Team Flipkart Stories

Here are Flipkart’s Culture Champions – what makes them exemplary?

They walk the talk. They live the Flipkart values. Flipkart’s Culture Champions are the ambassadors of the way Flipkart works. Get under their skin and find out what makes them tick!

Books

April 26, 2017

Bijoy Venugopal

Meet Saurabh Sharma, Flipkart’s bestselling novelist

Words can break barriers, create bonds, connect strangers, and even script a change. Saurabh Sharma’s bestselling novel has done all this and more. Armed with qualities of ruthless tenacity, innovation and thinking big — values that every Flipster strives to live by — Saurabh has written his own success story

FlipTales

April 20, 2017

Sailen

Meet the amazing #WomenOfFlipkart

In March 2017, Flipkart celebrated Women's Day with the launch of a special content series on social media called #WomenOfFlipkart. Be inspired by these amazing Flipsters and get a first-hand view of what life is like at Flipkart, regardless of gender

FlipTales

April 20, 2017

Padmini Pagadala

I be Flipster — Padmini Pagadala on growing with Flipkart

Four years can seem like an eternity at Flipkart, which at age ten is already an elder sibling to a generation of Indian startups. Padmini Pagadala, who designs Fulfillment Centers, reflects on being a 'dinosaur' in a company that she says has changed the way India buys. Padmini Pagadala, Associate Director - Design, reflects on being a dinosaur at Flipkart four years since she designed her first Fulfillment Center. Padmini, the finalist of the CEO For A Day contest conducted among Flipsters, was selected by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy to take over the reins of Flipkart for a day.

FlipTales

March 24, 2017

Arjun Paul

Fliptales – How Flipster Prarabdh Awasthi scales the mountains of the mind

What does it take to cross the finish line in an Ironman challenge? Can it be achieved by forging nerves of steel, or constantly reinforcing one’s faith in that pursuit? Or is it beyond all that? Prarabdh Awasthi, Engineering Manager at Flipkart and conqueror of the Half Ironman challenge, goes on record about his 7-year journey at Flipkart and his passion off the grid

FlipTales

January 11, 2017

Arjun Paul

FlipTales – Stefaan Van Hooydonk and the Tao of Unlearning

Did you know that the ability to unlearn might be what got you to where you are today? And that it may be the very thing that will help you grow in life, business and your career? No, we aren’t talking about forgetting. Unlearning is connected to understanding. The American author Isaac Asimov said it best: “I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.” Chief Learning Officer Stefaan Van Hooydonk is one Flipster who lives by these words. Schooled in Latin and Greek, and proficient in Dutch, English, Mandarin, German and French, Belgium-born Stefaan pursued his passion for Eastern and Western schools of thought, and attempts to apply both in his line of work. Unlearning, he swears, has stood him in good stead and guided him as he built from the ground up Flipkart’s exemplary internal knowledge management engine.

FlipTales

December 22, 2016

Arjun Paul

Ganapathy Poojari, the Ekart wishmaster who beats the clock

To deliver over three hundred and forty packages a day, single-handed, is no modest feat. Now, imagine doing that while beating Bengaluru's infamous traffic. Not only does Ekart Wishmaster Ganapathy Poojari accomplish the seemingly impossible every day, he fulfills the wishes of Flipkart customers without breaking a sweat — or a single traffic rule. There's one other thing he's good at — breaking his own record. Peep under his helmet and there's more to this personable, polite man — he's a hobby filmmaker who has also acted in a Kannada television serial. Flipkart Stories had a tough time catching up with Ekart's own Flash Gordon but when we did, we learned of his extraordinary story. Read on...