Flipkart Unfreezes To Increase Headcount, Offers 700 New Jobs
Flipkart Unfreezes To Increase Headcount, Offers 700 New Jobs

Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has started to increase its headcount in areas of data science and analytics, among other specialisations after a two-year lull in hiring.

The company has over 700 open positions and the majority of these are across functions in the technology department —data scientists, UI & UX designers, product solution engineers, tech program managers, software developers, IT infrastructure & service delivery and IT applications.

At the recently concluded campus recruitment round, Flipkart has also made offers to at least 20 students from the Indian School of Business (ISB), said an HR consultant familiar with the matter.

A spokesperson for Flipkart stated, “Flipkart is aggressively hiring in tech functions. Over 4/5th of all current open positions at Flipkart is for technology functions,” adding that the “aggressive tech hiring is part of the company’s ‘AI for India’ programme, which leverages Flipkart’s strengths in tech and data to build scalable AI-powered solutions for the country”. For this, the retailer has kept about 50 data sciences positions open.

The hiring drive comes after the company had to trim costs in 2016 and 2017 and saw its corporate workforce fall from being 15,000-strong at the end of 2015 to 8,000 employees. Flipkart had also deferred the joining dates for campus recruits from the IIMs in early 2016. However, things have changed since the Bengaluru-headquartered company received $4 billion in funding last year.

CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy in previous reports had said, “For the business to grow in a productive manner, deep technology is almost a necessity.”

 

 
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