New Delhi: Microsoft India is going easy on hiring this year and will instead focus on consolidation.
" There will be no significant hiring," the Microsoft India Chairman and Corporate Vice-President, Ravi Venkatesan, told reporters here on Monday on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit.
The company, which has a headcount of 5,300 people in the country, had hired " a few hundreds" last year.
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Venkatesan said: " (Steve) Barmer (global CEO) has gone on record saying this is a period of consolidation," rather than adding to the headcount.
The $58-billion global software leader has six business units in India, which include research centre, development centres and sales and marketing divisions.
The company, which boasts of running most of the personal computers worldwide on its operating system, has three centres in Hyderabad. The other units are in Bengaluru and Gurgaon.
Asked about the response to Microsoft’s latest version of the operating system Windows 7, Venkatesan said: " we are seeing very good early response."
