If they’re lucky, they’ll have passed through the Satyam finishing school at its HQ and research centre outside Hyderabad. If it wasn’t for the 40 degree heat, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on a university campus in Silicon Valley. Single staff get to live on site, and they all get access to a pool, table tennis rooms, gym and billiards hall, along with possibly the greenest lawn in the whole of India. There’s even a zoo.

It's all greenfields and blue skies

Publicly, Satyam’s ambitions are confined to the technology and consulting world. We couldn’t confirm it, but we suspect it might have a genetics arm concentrating on flooding the world with gigantic white rabbits who will program ERP systems for nothing more than a bag of carrots a day. Or perhaps we just shouldn’t have gone out in the midday sun.

Lewis Carroll would have been proud

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