Mumbai: Around 10 top e-commerce firms have planned to hire 60,000 people by 2015. The designations will be available in various departments of ancillary units, supply chain and logistics and temporary employees. Online shopping portals like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Myntra, are doubling their headcount this year to ward off aggressive competitors such as Amazon. The sudden increase in recruitments might also be a part of the game plan.
As per official reports, Flipkart will increase hiring from 13,000 to 25,000, and out of this 1,200 will be engineers. And on the other hand Snapdeal.com said it will double headcount to 2,600 from 1,300 currently, and increase the number of engineers from 250 to 500.
Zomato might likely double its numbers from 650 in core functions such as tech, sales, content and operations because of its expansion in countries across the Americas, Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia, said Upasana Nath, chief recruitment officer. Yatra will also add 200 to its employee strength of 1,000, compared with 150 last year. Competitor TaxiforSure also further plans to expand to 15 locations by 2015 and increase from 435 to 1,500 employees. It will add 50-75 more to the leadership team who will be responsible for managing new locations. The e-commerce companies are also planning to step up campus hiring.
Online shopping portals will also hire from foreign campuses such as Wharton and Harvard.
