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It is the country's fourth largest private employer after Tata Consultancy Services, Reliance Industries and Cognizant with 241,000 people on its rolls. In just about a decade, it operates in nine countries and has a market cap of more than Rs 15,000 crore, which has ballooned so rapidly that an investment of Rs 245 in the company in 2013 would now be worth Rs 8,500. It had revenues of Rs 4,157 crore in 2016/17, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45 per cent in the last five years, while net profit has risen even faster at a CAGR of 69 per cent. And yet this is a company most people are unlikely to have even heard of.

Its name is Quess Corp and it is India's largest staffing company, housed in an unprepossessing, three storey, grey coloured building in east Bangalore's