Google can’t find talent in India?

Posted by Jim Stroud

October 24, 2006

There might be more than a billion people in India, but even an internet superstar such as Google has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said.

“I know first hand that we’ve had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to other parts of the world,” Google director Ram Shriram said in San Francisco.

In particular, the venture capitalist cited a shortage of web development skills such as knowledge of Javascript and Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The web design technology used in the latest generation of websites such as Google Maps and Flickr Middle also are in short-supply, he said.

“The people are smart, innately smart but don’t have this particular skill set yet,” said Shriram, an Indian native who is a founding member of Google’s board of directors.

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