Amazon has 8,000 direct job openings in 35 cities
Mumbai, Sept. 2: Amazon is planning to hire more than 8,000 direct workforce across
35 cities in the country this year across corporate, technology, customer service and operations roles, a top company official said.
"We have more than
8,000 direct job openings across 35 cities in the country, including cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Noida, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Pune, Surat.
"These job opportunities are spread across corporate, technology, customer service, and operations roles," said Deepti Varma, HR leadercorporate—Apac and Mena, Amazon.
"We're also hiring for machine learning applied sciences. We are hiring in support functions like HR, finance, legal... quite a lot of them, which are there," she told PTI.
She said the company aims for 20 lakh job openings, both direct and indirect,
by 2025, and already created 10 direct and indirect in India.
Even during the pandemic, Amazon gave jobs to 3 lakh people, both direct and indirect, and made the entire hiring process virtual, she said.
Currently, Amazon employs over one lakh professionals across diverse areas like engineering, applied sciences, business management, supply chain, operations, finance, HR to analytics, content creation and acquisition, marketing, real estate, corporate security, video, music and many more, Varma said.
India is the secondlargest technology hub for Amazon with Indian talent innovating for