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September 06, 2004
Google actively hiring in Bangalore, India
Google is actively hiring for the recently opened research and development centre in Bangalore India, its latest engineering facility outside its California headquarters.
The company, which hit the news for its IPO plans recently, is expected to hire about 100 professionals initially. Legendary for hiring practices, Google says, ‘‘We’re looking to hire talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists.’’
Sample this: Google on its website has posted resumes for one to understand what kind of experience they are looking for. They say the hiring standards in India will be exactly the same as in the US, which includes a rigorous, technical interview.
Earlier, the search engine had been careful to clarify to the press that they are not outsourcing. ‘‘We will not take any jobs away from US workers,’’ Google had emphasised.
The R&D centre in Bangalore, which now seems poised to be fully functional, means business. The Bangalore office’s charter is to innovate, implement and launch new Google technologies and products. ‘‘Anything is fair game and the team here gets to decide its agenda.’’
The focus will be on fundamental areas of computer science, including information retrieval, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, theoretical computer science, statistics and user interfaces.
Google promises India a one virtual campus wherein Bangalore professionals can relocate to other centres worldwide; and also, an engineer can rise to be a vice-president ‘‘purely based on technical accomplishments. No need to get into management to advance career’’.
Presently, Google has 21 offices worldwide, the ones outside of the US primarily being sales offices. More than 1,000 employees work at Google, about half at technical, or engineering related jobs.
Google hit the news recently with its Initial Public Offering that is expected to value the company at as much as US$25 billion.
Source: Express India.com
Posted by nakul at September 6, 2004 06:17 AM | TrackBack