Amazon India on hiring spree, to employ 2,000 people

By

Maverick Martins

Published
Nov 30, 2018

Amazon is looking to scale up its operations in the country and is on a hiring spree to employ more than 2,000 people for technology and non-technology positions in India.
 

Earlier this year, Amazon India had laid off a small section of its workforce as part of a global restructuring programme.
 
However, Amazon is now on the lookout for talent and looking to employ people for tech and non-tech roles across the company’s various divisions in the country including Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.in and its Devices division.

With a workforce of over 50,000 employees, India is currently the second largest workforce centre for Amazon after the US. The number is further expected to grow in the coming months as Amazon is committed to investing heavily in India and will employ people from different regions and diverse backgrounds.
 
“We have over 2,000 open job positions of which 50 percent are for tech and 50 percent are for non-tech roles and this number is growing as we speak,” Deepti Varma, HR director of Amazon India, told BusinessLine.
 
“At first we were focused on gender equality but now, we focus on the disabled, people from different regions, diverse backgrounds and ethnicity from around India because we need diversity in order to solve problems for a diverse customer base,” Varma added.