300 more engineers to join Google in India

Updated on: Friday, November 12, 2010

Google plans to hire 300 more technical personnel to increase headcount in India and strengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research and development centre in the world.

In the next couple of years with plans to focus on cloud computing, the search giant plans to increase its techincal engineers base with 300 more personnel.

Peeyush Ranjan, head of engineering, Google India, told reporters that 300 engineers were already working in Hyderabad and Bangalore on cloud computing.

Cloud computing is web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices such as smartphones on demand over the Internet.

Google already has cloud computing centres in Mountain View in California and New York but the Hyderabad centre is the largest in terms of the number of engineers working. Google already has 2,000 employees in India and the Hyderabad engineering centre will be core to its efforts to focus on cloud computing, he said.

While the engineering centre in Bangalore is working on cloud computing as well as search, ads, maps and news, the Hyderabad centre is focusing only on cloud computing. "The work being done in these two centres are global in nature and the technologies they are developing are for the business globally," he said.

Google has around three million customers in cloud computing globally. About 100,000 businesses in India are already using Google's cloud computing technologies.

300 more engineers to join Google in India

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