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Canadian enterprise information management firm OpenText Corporation, which has 2,400 employees in its innovation centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, plans to double its India headcount at the rate of 450 employees a year, over the next five years.
The Nasdaq-listed firm, which reported $2.29 billion in revenue in FY 2017, counts the India innovation centres as its biggest successes, from amongst its 60 centres worldwide.
“India is not a bug fixing, maintenance, documentation, boring work centre. Of the 300 plus products in the OpenText portfolio, every one of those products is represented here. India is one of our biggest successes, where products are born, matured, designed, developed, executed and delivered out of either Hyderabad or Bengaluru,” Muhi S Majzoub, Executive Vice-President – Engineering & Information Technology, OpenText Corporation, told BusinessLine , on a recent visit to India.
“Starting with 200 employees in 2009, when we acquired Vignette Corporation, whose India employees in Hyderabad became OpenText employees, we have grown more than tenfold to 2,400. We plan to double our India headcount over the next five years and have open positions for engineering, from junior engineers all the way up to principal architects,” said Majzoub.
Some of the other open positions are for, technical product managers, business product managers, business analysts and in the areas of quality assurance, user experience, design & documentation, network operations centre and communication centre.
OpenText’s India innovation centres own products end-to-end, unlike captive centres of many multinational firms that just work on back-end processes or new/existing product features. For instance, the company’s media management solution is owned by the India team; its content management solution and life sciences product are developed here in India. The India team also works on new product initiatives, like the OpenText Extended Enterprise Content Management Platform, which did not exist last year.
Lateral hiring
In addition to hiring laterals, OpenText has an internship programme that hires freshers. “We have 100 plus interns who are university students who work with us from six months to a year – 95 of them are in Hyderabad and this visit, I opened up 50 intern positions in Bengaluru. The internship programme has become a big part of our recruiting strategy over the last four years, because a third of them end up becoming full time employees at OpenText,” said Majzoub.
The company has funded ($100,000-150,000) an advanced tech research project in machine-learning research at IIIT-Hyderabad last year and is looking to renew it with another AI project this year and to expand the programme to Bengaluru.
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