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Wipro today said that 50 per cent of its workforce in the US consists of local employees.
Further, in the last six months, Wipro hired over 1,600 American employees and has invested $2 billion in the US, the company said in a statement.
Currently, the company has 14,000 people working in the US that includes a combination of freshers hired from universities and lateral hires, a company said in a statement.
Abidali Z. Neemuchwala, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, Wipro said: “We will continue to build a strong local talent pool with diverse skill sets and make strategic investments in close proximity to our clients to serve them better.”
Campus hiringThe company will hire technical talent from colleges located in geographical proximity to its new and existing delivery centers in the US. For instance, Wipro recruits students from The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Houston, Rice University, University of North Texas and other colleges for its delivery center in Dallas. It also hires management talent from top US business schools such as Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University for Wipro’s Global 100 programme.
India’s third largest software exporter has 40 facilities across 23 states in the US, 1,000 employees each in Florida, California, Georgia and Texas, two centres offering digital technologies in Mountain View, California and Michigan, staffed predominantly by local talent to offer engineering services to its clients in the automotive sector, according to company executives. Further, the software major also plans to expand its existing centres in Dallas and Tampa.
These developments are coming at a time when the US has mandated a salary increase for techies employed in H-1B visas from $65,000 earlier to $130,000 annually.
This has forced software exporters to rethink their strategy. Recently, Infosys announced its decision to hire 10,000 employees in the US in the next few years.
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