Facebook to start India Operations in Hyderabad – to recruit 500+ engineers

By Manoj Govindassamy on 29 June, 2010, 12:23 pm

Well known social networking portal and the fastest growing site (by traffic and active users) – Facebook is all set for desi plunge. Now, the company has got a green signal from Union government to set up an operation in Hyderabad.

Facebook has already started hiring in India. In fact, the company is on hiring spree and targeting 500+ engineers initially for its Hyderabad operations. The Facebook hyderabad center will be supporting the Palo Alto (CA, USA), Dublin and Texas centers and will involve in core development and maintenance work.

Facebook to start India Operations in Hyderabad - to recruit 500+ engineers

Just few months back, Zynga (maker of games FarmVille, Mafia Wars) – a social gaming company running on Facebook platform setup its operations in Bangalore. By the way, Hyderabad office would be Facebook’s first office in the Asia region. It is learnt that in India region alone, Facebook has over 7 million active users. Its competitor social networking site, Orkut (from Google) is dying in the country. From the traffic data, its very evident, netizens are migrating from Orkut to Facebook.

Facebook work culture is no way inferior to that of Google’s and is one of the best in the US. It is expected, the company gets the same the enjoyable work culture (and with fat payouts) in its India operations also and get into the list of “dream companies” for the tech engineers in the country.

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