Facebook to open office in Hyderabad, India
By Muruganandham Krishnan on 16 March, 2010, 1:13 am
Popular social-networking site Facebook will open an office in Hyderabad – India, joining a long list of international firms that have looked to tap a skilled workforce that provides support services at relatively cheap wages. Facebook, which lets users connect and share information with friends online, has emerged as one of the Internet’s most popular destinations, challenging established players like Yahoo Inc and Google.
Facebook announced that it is investing in India by opening an office in Hyderabad, where it will host a support team for its growing number of users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world.
Facebook’s new operations center in Hyderabad will be its first in Asia and will supplement operations supported out of Palo Alto, California, Dublin, Ireland and a recently announced location in Austin, Texas. The Hyderabad office, like the others, will also house online advertising and developer support teams. Facebook will source a small team in Hyderabad itself and a full list of job descriptions for open positions can be viewed at www.facebook.com/careers.
Facebook counts around 400 million users and has had large investments from Microsoft and from Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies. More than 8 million of Facebook’s total users are in India.
Facebook will initially recruit a small team in India, and anticipates further growth as the office expands. It is hiring people to join the online sales and operations teams that it is forming in the Hyderabad and Austin offices.
Hyderabad also houses other foreign firms, including Internet powerhouse Google and software giant Microsoft, whose Indian employees work on everything from writing software codes to providing customer services at cheaper salaries than in developed nations such as the United States.
Get ready guys for the hunt to get into Facebook. I am sure that it would become a dream company like Google.
I don’t know why all latest hot startup companies and dream employers choose Hyderabad as their destination and not bangalore / chennai.
Anyway, Facebook coming to India is a very good news. And you are right, creamy layers now will target Facebook India jobs along with google/microsoft …
This is inded a very good news for all of us.
1) It is creating new jobs here.
2) Brings more business into our country.
3) Lets the companies across the globe know India’s potential, giving a message that the companies’ presence in India is a must have.