The Indian division of South Korean tech giant Samsung has recently announced that they are planning to hire over 1000 engineers across various departments from IITs and other major engineering colleges in India. It is good news for Indian engineering students as many of them will get the chance to start off their careers with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Sameer Wadhawan, Samsung India’s Head of Human Resources, said in a statement to Business Insider that the company would be hiring engineers across various specialisations and departments, including computer science, electrical engineering, communications, mathematics and computing, and information technology. “As businesses continue to expand and grow, we will be hiring 1000 plus engineers for our R&D [research and development] centres from top-notch engineering colleges. These engineers will work at our R&D centres located in Bangalore, Delhi and Noida,” he said. According to reports, Samsung intends to recruit 260 engineers from IITs. Recruiters from the company have recently visited the two new IITs in Goa and Jodhpur, and Kharagpur, Roorkee, Palakkad, Guwahati, Indore, Gandhinagar, and Varanasi. By Rishab Sengupta. While roughly a quarter of the recruits will come from IITs, the rest will be hired from other top-tier engi- neering colleges in the country such as BITS Pilani and NITs. Two hundred fifty pre-placement offers have already been extended to engineers across these institutions. “Hiring through PPOs helps both the employer and the employee get a better perspective on job fitment and satisfaction,” stated Mr. Wadhawan. The new recruits, who will be recruited in 2022, will be put to work in various fields of R&D, including AI, machine learning, Internet of Things, very large scale integration, networks, etc. They will be focused on developing creative solutions for India-specific issues. Samsung has been active in India for over 25 years. In that period they have managed to massively expand their research and development sector, with the Bengaluru centre having filed over 7500 global patents and over 3500 patent in India so far. Samsung’s R&D centres in India are some of their largest outside of Korea, and they show no signs of slowing growth. Samsung’s last major recruitment programme in India was in 2019 when they recruited 1200 engineers from colleges across the country. Recruitment efforts were stifled in 2020 due to delays and restrictions imposed by the pandemic. Many of the recruits hired in 2019 were allowed to join in 2020 due to these delays and some even in 2021.
10 Jan 2022
Rishab Sengupta
