Yahoo! to hire 400 employees this year

Yahoo! India is expected to hire some 400-odd personnel over the next one year and most of them for its Centre of Excellence in Bangalore which caters to Yahoo’s emerging markets like India, Singapore, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. This centre, according to sources, employs around 1,500 people.

This centre, for its expansion, is looking to hire architects, user experience designers (UEDs), programme managers among others.

Yahoo! India kept a low profile over the last few months when the takeover threat by Microsoft loomed over it and it had also gone slow on recruitment.

The Yahoo! India centre is taking up more and more end-to-end product development and, “The personnel in India now have the power to influence products.”

Pranesh Anthapur, COO, Yahoo! India Research and Development, said, “Yahoo has been able to rollout its public Beta for Glue, which is an alternative search. India is now a favoured market for rolling out products for many firms today.”

This new product was developed at Yahoo!’s US headquarters and at its Bangalore centre.

Many of its young employees, those with one to three years of experience often leave for higher studies. Hence, like other firms, Yahoo! has developed a curriculum in partnership with BITS-Pilani for an MS programme and the classes would be held in Bangalore.

This is in addition to some classes conducted by BITS’s faculty who will visit Bangalore occassionally. Some 40-odd employees are said to have signed up for the course that is expected to help with work on the Internet.