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SaaS Unicorn Freshworks Launches its Second India Office at Bengaluru
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SaaS Unicorn Freshworks Launches its Second India Office at Bengaluru

Customer engagement software company Freshworks launched its second India office at Bengaluru. This unit will act as a second engineering center and will be focussed on building new platforms and to dedicate more resources to its data science requirements. The SaaS unicorn is preparing for scale - and handling a larger customer base will require the extra hands onboard. This will also help the company to go upmarket and win over bigger deals. “Speeding up product development and enhancing our AI/ML capabilities will be the prime focus as we continue to invest in nurturing niche engineering proficiencies. Bangalore will strengthen our Platform Services, Data Science, Data Platforms and Site Reliability Engineering teams,” said STS Prasad, Senior Vice-President of Engineering at Freshwor...
Uber Will Hire Indian Techies For Its Engineering Center
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Uber Will Hire Indian Techies For Its Engineering Center

US-based cab aggregator Uber is hiring more techies for its engineering centres in the country as it looks to roll out more innovations from India in areas like payments, bookings and rider and driver experience. The company is also in discussion with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to enable customers pay for rides using UPI. "We are hiring rapidly. We are looking for product managers, data scientists, designers etc," Uber India Head of Engineering Apurva Dalal told reporters here. Uber has two engineering centres in India in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The teams work on areas like safety, payments, driver growth, maps, vehicle telematics and rider experience, among others. It currently has about 100 people in these two centres. Dalal, however, did not comment on ho...