Posted on 09/26/2005 4:52:24 AM PDT by Salo
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) plans to double its staff strength at its Indian centers in Hyderabad and Bangalore by March 2006, a top company official said late on Saturday.
"We aim to ramp up the strength at the India Development Center (in Hyderabad) by another 1,000 professionals," Tess Field, Microsoft's head of human resources in India, told reporters on the sidelines of a management convention.
The Hyderabad campus in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is the software maker's largest campus outside the United States and provides product development and support services.
The 28-acre (11 hectare) campus, which opened last November, also houses a global delivery center and is part of a three-year, $400 million investment plan for India announced in 2002.
Microsoft also plans to double the headcount to around 1,000 staff members at its technology center in India's premier software hub of Bangalore, Field said.
India's $17.2-billion software services industry employs about 1 million people. Exports of software and business services are forecast to grow 30 to 32 percent in the year to March 2006, powered by the country's low-cost, IT-savvy and English-speaking workforce.
It is amazing fast how he can turn an anti-microsoft topic into an anti-IBM topic.
It's called relevant significance. You guys fake concern that Microsoft hired 1,000 in India, but seem quite content that IBM laid off 13,000 here and in Europe while hiring 14,000 in India. That's greater than an order of magnitude, if you have any idea what that means.
Indeed. I tire of responding to him. He's such a one-dimensional bore.
Funny, considering just the other day I was educating you as to the differences between a "patch" and a "workaround" on a thread you created which proved you didn't know the difference.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1482107/posts
This is not a question of hating companies. Its a simple fact that you can hire more people cheaper to do computer related work in India than in europe or US. And these jobs are not customer facing jobs where the person has to understand American Slang or accent.
English spoken in the US and in India is obviously different due to phrases and figures of speech as well as accent and communicating might be an issue but if you go to silicon valley more than 50% of those employees in the Silicon valley are already immigrants. And they have no problems getting along or communicating with Americans. Both learn to understand each other very quickly. I have worked in silicon valley myself for a long time.
The tech business will keep moving jobs out simply due to the economics. They can hire a person for 15$ an hour to do the same job that requires an american 40$. How many americans will pay 40 bucks for a product thats available for 15 in another store?
And its not just US companies. I was in India last year and you can see companies there from all parts of the world. Europe, Japan, Korea, US ..
There is simply no point in blaming any company.
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