Facebook starts full recruitment for Hyderabad centre

Submitted by Pankaj Lakhotia on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 08:56
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Facebook, one of leading networking sites in the world, has planned to set up a support centre in Hyderabad and it has started recruitment for all job levels in the country.

Facebook caters to more than 400 million active users, the number which is growing quickly. Out of the total userbase, about 8 million users are based in India. Facebook was established in 2004 and it has gained popularity around the world since then to emerge as the leading social networking site across continents.

The first such centre in Asia will provide support for the large number of users, advertisers and developers in the country and around the world for the site. The company said that the centre would support to online advertising and developer support teams along with providing non stop multi-lingual support to users and advertisers around the world.

Facebook has joined other companies Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, IBM and Computer Associaties in setting up support centers in the country. The centre will supplement other centers in California, Dublin and Austin in Texas.

The company will recruit local language specialists, online sales managers and IT security heads for eh centre. It is also looking for India head who will scale up the operations of the company.


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