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Do they have any marketing operations also in Bangalore office or just tech and research departments over here.
Being an ideas and strategies person myself, would obviusoly want to join G here in Bangalore! ;)
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IdeaVirus, its a engineering facility ...India is a small online market so its not feasible to have a Sales Team there ...
Google is opening an office in Bangalore, India - our first full engineering facility outside the United States. The office will operate in an identical manner to our other engineering groups, with the same scope of work, hiring standards and unique Google culture.
[edited by: gopi at 8:57 pm (utc) on Dec. 11, 2003]
If you guys get a job for google let me know
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True ... i am happy even though i am in the right side of the pacific because i am originally from india :)
But nevertheless its an important news because its not one of the multiple sales offices which google have in many countries ...its the ONLY product development centre other than the main US Office!
Our goal is to conceive, research, implement and deploy the next generation search engine
Might that be the hidden gem in this? Something else to chat about for the next couple of years while it's in devleopment, kind of like MS & the very long awaited Longhorn.
The language leaves all doors open.
But nevertheless its an important news because its not one of the multiple sales offices which google have in many countries ...its the ONLY product development centre other than the main US Office!
I agree. I guess I should have figured it was only a matter of time before Google started moving to India too.
As an Indian-American (I'm assuming from your post) what is it about Indian culture that has helped India to become such a big player in the tech industry? That's always intrigued me because we're talking about jobs that require skill, not the old sweat-shop/no-skill stuff the U.S. has exported in the past.
Both count for a lot - the former more and more. Here in the UK, we are even farming out our call centre business on a big scale - lots of people here have lost their jobs.
Why India? Very cheap labour and Indian people speak better English than some English people (or some English people who are prepared to do that job).
What is it about Indian culture that has helped India to become such a big player in the tech industry?
Education plays a very important role in indian culture , most of the middle class kids goes to college (possible by low cost college education) and the smart ones goes to engineering schools ...
I will say Chinese culture has the same traits and they also have smart/hardworking people , but unfortunately they dont speak english :) ...
Another important reason is the trend of Globalisation and advancements in Communicaton technologies (Internet/ VoIP)...
IMO slowly China and India are becoming the Factory and BackOffice of the world respectively!
Indian people speak better English than some English people
I dont agree that ... English is just a second language to most english speaking indians so its sure not better than UK or US people ...
so more skilled.
I would have to disagree there, the skill is there, but the main reason is price. I just don't think one can argue for more skill. In addition, the US gets their fair share of scientists/Phds from there so there is a syphoning effect going on also.
Why does anyone go into India or China - very cheap labor who produces excellent quality.
Not that I have a PHD or I know C from C++. I just want some Google pre-IPO shares. ;)
India publishes newspapers in 87 different languages. 58 different languages are taught at schools.
The price differential that I mentioned was between an Engineer in the US and one based in India {not based on ethnicity within the same market}. That is the reason why Google is opening a facility there. It could be argued that when it comes to technology skills, the pool available in the US is unmatched anywhere else in the world, the problem is that people demand higher compensation here than in India, Russia or many other places.
Nevertheless, now that I think about it.... I am pretty sure there would be a price differential between Indian born scientists and US born scientists based in the US {even after accounting for other factors such as length of time in the industry, length of time in the company, etc.} Just like there is a price differential between men and women. That is just the way things have worked out to be. However, further discussion will be clearly off-topic.
I don't believe they receive a lesser salary here than their British counterparts, but they are more highly skilled.
Take into account that those moving to the EU or the US are usually some of their best. However, native guys run anywhere from the best, to the good, to the really bad.
This is true of employees and companies in all countries, you have all kind of employees. Not all are equally gifted, some are really good and some are below average.
I'm from India and I have seen likes of IBM global, Hewlett Packard, Adobe, Intel and Oracle trying very hard to attract "native guys" from local Indian software companies and not all of these companies are looking for cheap labor to work 14-16 hours a day.
1) That the price for engineers in India is cheaper than in the US. Somehow I believe this was understood as me saying that Hindu Engineers are cheaper than native engineers whithin the same market. The fact is that it is much cheaper over there.
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2) I said that those Engineers moving overseas from India are probably among their best. I get the impression that this was understood by some as me saying that the ones behind are not good. I did use the word "some". The fact is that there is brain drain.
lets see who's the first "IndianGoogleGuy" at WebmasterWorld :)
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