Wanted Software Engineers: Google clicks on India
Google performs a query for the best engineers around and what's on top of
the list? India.
The world's most popular search engine recently announced that it is
opening its first engineering facility outside of the US - in Bangalore,
India - within the first quarter of this year.
Google said the Bangalore office will operate just like any of its
engineering divisions in the US including that "unique Google culture". If
that's the case, engineer hopefuls from India better learn how to jump on
a trampoline and get used to a chef manning the menu. Gourmet curry,
anyone?
Reports indicate that Google needs about 100 engineers in its goal to
create a "next generation search engine".
"Our engineering team is working on problems in a number of areas,
including distributed systems, information retrieval, algorithms, a
variety of novel search features, and scalability issues related to
dealing with huge amounts of data and a rapidly increasing user
population," Google said in its website.
But in a recent ZDNet article, a spokesman from Google was quick to say
that the decision to move engineering work to India was not motivated by
lower wages, but to take advantage of the country's rich pool of
engineering talent.
This statement could be intended as a sort of buffer, given
anti-outsourcing sentiments in the US.
But at annual salaries of around $75,000 for US engineers versus $20,000
their Indian counterparts make, it undeniably spells a lot of savings for
any company willing to outsource.
