Technology
Center in Bangalore Advances Zoom’s Commitment to Invest in India
Zoom Video Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today announced that it will expand its
presence in India by opening a new technology center in Bangalore, where it
will hire key talent over the next few years. This commitment represents a
growing strategic investment in the country, where Zoom already has one office
in Mumbai (which is expected to triple in size) and two data centers in Mumbai
and Hyderabad. This growing presence is in direct response to Zoom’s increased
level of adoption by users across India. From January to April 2020, Zoom has
seen 6700% growth in free user sign ups in India.
This
expansion into Bangalore will supplement Zoom’s existing R&D centers and
support Zoom’s engineering leadership, which is based at its San Jose,
California headquarters. Zoom selected Bangalore for its exceptional
engineering and IT talent. The company will immediately begin recruiting DevOps
engineers, IT, Security, and Business Operations headcount in the area.
Employees will work from home until the pandemic-related remote work has
subsided.
“India is a strategically important
country for Zoom and we expect to see continued growth and investment here. We
are proud to provide our services for free to over 2,300 educational
institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, and look forward to
continuing to work with the people and government of India hand-in-hand,” said Eric S. Yuan, CEO of Zoom.
“We plan to hire key employees for the technology center over the next few
years, pulling from India’s highly-educated engineering talent pool. This
facility will play a critical role in Zoom’s continued growth.”
“Zoom
is focused on providing the best unified communications experience in the world
and we are thrilled to open a technology center in Bangalore, which will be an
innovation hub for our communications platform,”
said Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering for Zoom.
“The talent in India is truly exceptional and we are looking forward to
expanding our DevOps, IT, Security, and Business Operations teams here as we
scale our operations.”
The launch of a technology center in
Bangalore represents Zoom’s strategy of developing its cutting-edge
communications technology in multiple locations globally. The center will play
a vital role as a source of innovation for Zoom, leveraging some of India’s
most talented professionals. Zoom commits to these efforts in India with the
goal of providing better service to individuals and organizations around the
globe, empowering them to accomplish more with video-first unified communications.
The launch will also open opportunities for local talent to do meaningful work
and contribute to an organization whose core value is to care for our
communities, customers, company, teammates, and selves.

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