Zapak Not Shutting Down Bangalore Office; Consolidating Development In Mumbai

Zapak is not planning to shut down its Bangalore office, COO Rohit Sharma told MediaNama. A recent blog post in Pluggd.in (a blog by a Yahoo employee), had claimed yesterday that “Zapak has decided to shut down it’s Bangalore office and has fired close to 40 employees.”

We contacted Sharma, who told us that Zapak had an engineering center in Bangalore with around 30 people in all, of which 16 people were in engineering. However, since some of the development work was taking place in Mumbai and some in Bangalore, it was difficult for the company to manage the two: product managers had to travel frequently between Mumbai and Bangalore. In order to consolidate development in Mumbai, the company asked most of the development team to move to Mumbai. Around 5-6 people are moving, while others have left.

Zapak maintains that they will still have around 15 people in their Bangalore office and and are not shutting it down. The southern operations of their Gameplex business operates out of Bangalore, and they are looking to hire sales and marketing staff.

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  1. Sharma is telling lies go to bangalore and check you will know otherwise you should publish a video recroding of statement.
    How much money they pay you ?

    Posted by Rakesh | November 20, 2008, 5:19 pm
  2. no money. We contacted them for a confirmation of the news, and reported what they have stated.

    Posted by Nikhil Pahwa | November 20, 2008, 5:38 pm
  3. we have known zapak from the time it has launched and there has been no issue with it. if you wish to get in touch you could reply back to my comment with your number of email id

    Posted by amit | November 20, 2008, 5:45 pm
  4. I am working with Zapak Bangalore and its surprising to read all these stories about it shutting down. I am still going to office and didnt see any locks around :-)

    Posted by Zapak Emmployee | November 22, 2008, 12:39 am
  5. You ridiculous liars have eaten a lot of money from the company and seem to get money and salary for just doing nothing and warming your seats the whole day. I have done so much hard work in zapak and they fired me just because all lazy people in mumbai who pretend to work needed to get his free salary. Read the blog and the comments and you will know that Zapak Bangalore is CLOSED. Go and check if you want and then publish this article again http://www.pluggd.in/layoff-india/zapak-to-shut-down-bangalore-office-3155

    Posted by Fired by Zapak | November 23, 2008, 4:00 pm
  6. Maybe you were fired because you were not a good performer unlike you think

    Posted by Rajesh | November 24, 2008, 3:30 pm
  7. Rajesh, just keep shut and dont think your too smart. You are just one of those lazy zapak mumbai staff from its product or engineering who is surviving because of your politics and you know to fool top management like a politician.
    Next time you say anything, i will stop your pocket money and food.

    Posted by Rajesh ka baap | December 7, 2008, 2:43 pm

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