Google India Looking for Engineers
Posted on October 15, 2006 Comments (1)
Google not finding right talent in India to suit its needs
Google, which is considered to have a very low attrition rate even in the high-job-hopping Indian IT space, has found it more challenging to hire certain talent in India as compared to other parts of the world, the company’s Founder-Director Kavitark Ram Shriram admitted recently.
The Indian origin founding board member of Google and a well-known venture capitalist said at an ‘investing in India’ conference in San Francisco, “I know first hand that we have had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to the other parts of the world.”
Google even has a we’re hiring link on the Google India home page.
Recent articles also point to other companies having trouble finding Indian engineers to fill all the jobs they hoped to fill.
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May 23rd, 2007 @ 11:45 pm
A good post on some of the difficulties of outsourcing. Also a good illustration of how economics is suppose to work. If labor is underpriced in India and the market is opened labor rates should rise to a level where they are equivalent…