Facebook, the largest site of social networks, is doing something that no national or multinational company has done before - to hire software engineers in India for positions based in the United States.
In general, global companies like IBM and General Electric in India to hire positions here and send some of these recruits abroad for specific projects. However, Facebook's invitation in a newspaper ad last week seeking candidates "to work in the U.S." being considered as the first time.
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"It is unusual and I have not seen anything like this," said Sharad Sharma, president of the forum of industry body NASSCOM product software. The advertisement in The Times of India noted that online applicants a coding challenge for 86 vacant positions in software engineering in Chicago, Dublin (Ireland), New York and Seattle.
They solve the puzzles were promised a telephone interview. The online test is being done in collaboration with InterviewStreet, a startup founded by Vivek Ravhishankar, graduated from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirapalli. Facebook is a client of InterviewStreet.
Facebook declined to comment for this article. The California-based company has filed for an initial public offering expected to value it at about $ 100 billion. India, which has about 46 million users, is one of its fastest growing markets and an important source of talent.
Facebook has a development center in Hyderabad and the year of the last hired a graduate of NIT-Warangal to his office in Palo Alto, in an interview on campus. Ajit Isaac, CEO of Ikya Human Capital, based in Bangalore, a company human resources solutions, was of the opinion that Facebook could have carried out a survey to find out what kind of people who work well with him.
"The desired outcomes in his office in Hyderabad could have done to recruit some talent for the U.S.." Ganesh Shermon, head country for the practice of human capital in Indian arm of audit and advisory services at KPMG, which describes the motion of Facebook as an "interesting development" if the company is willing to arrive in India hired a permit working.
According to Murugaiah Prabhakaran, founder and CEO of Corp-Corp, a technology company based in Virginia staffing, recruitment companies in India for jobs based in the U.S. is rare, but this will probably increase due to the shortage of talent in the world's largest economy. "Unemployment in the area of technology is only 3.7%, which is almost zero talent available to current knowledge of the demand," he said.
"The current wave and the exponential growth of the cloud, mobile data, major IT security and will create several thousand jobs in the next 6 to 18 months." IT services and business process outsourcing company employing some 2.5 million people in India and are stepping up recruitment in the U.S. in the face of a strong sentiment against offshoring jobs.
Facebook hiring plan and ability to get the work permit contracts to India will happen in the backdrop of complaints of domestic software companies on the higher visa controls.
Requirements:
- Graduation (any stream)
- Excellent written and verbal skills of communication
- Avid Facebook user with knowledge of product announcements FB
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining strict attention to detail
- Comfortable interacting with external clients and serving as an expert in the field
- Problem solving and analytical skills, along with the ability to act independently by competing priorities
- Highly motivated and able to thrive in a changing environment and implement in a timely manner
- It's good to know SQL - Excel
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