Mindtree has been recruiting talent in Kolkata since February 2021 and already employs more than 1,000 professionals in the city including 400 freshers. The company is aggressively adding to its team in Kolkata and expects to double its headcount in the city in the next financial year as it envisages the city to be a digital engineering hub for the company.
“Kolkata was a natural choice,” said Debashis Chatterjee, CEO and Managing Director of Mindtree. He added that the city has very good access to the talent, good engineering colleges as well as Management Institutes apart from the Indian Statistical Institute.
From Kolkata, the company is providing digital solutioning, consulting, cloud, core modernization, product engineering, business intelligence, data analytics, CRM platform, and cybersecurity services to some of the world’s largest retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, banking, financial services, insurance, travel, transportation, and hospitality companies in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
“The advantage of Kolkata is apart from engineering talent, you also need the statistical mindset which is very unique to the work that we do these days in terms of data and analytics. Last February, when we made the decision to start hiring in Kolkata, we started putting together industry academia programs with the campuses in and around the city. So you can say that roughly last year we have been building out the teams here that have been delivering client solutions,” he told ET.
The L&T Group company reported a growth of more than 40% in its top 20 clients in the past year.
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The company is already servicing a large European sportswear client, a US-based consumer goods company, global tech company, US-based real estate major and an insurance and investment management company from the Kolkata center among many other BFSI, CPG, travel and hospitality and manufacturing clients.
While the company is still following a hybrid mode, it is expecting to start a two-day in-person office week from April. Both for the Kolkata center as well as the Pune center launched last week the company has introduced an innovative hot-desk platform where employees can pre-book seats.
