“When the six of us joined, we knew where a computer keyboard is and mouse is, that’s all. Later we were taught programming here as part of 18 months training,” she says.

“I come from a very poor family,” Durairajan adds.

Durairajan now leads iOS development for some of Zoho’s software products including Zoho Recruit.

“My professor in school used to tell us you should aim to work at Google and Yahoo. But Zoho is now competing with Google, so why to go there?”