Talent pool drives eBay to arrange Global Capability Centre in Bengaluru

The high quality and variety of expertise in Bengaluru prompted the American e-commerce firm eBay to decide on town over Hyderabad to arrange its first Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India, mentioned Mazen Rawashdeh, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, eBay. He was chatting with The Hindu forward of the revealing of the GCC.  

“The expertise in India, on the whole, is superb. We have been debating between Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and we selected Bengaluru as the standard and variety of the expertise is de facto engaging right here…We need to open and develop our presence with the dev centre and entice prime expertise. It’s a world-class tier-1 tech dev centre for us,” he mentioned. 

eBay’s roughly 65,000-square-foot new workplace will host a wide range of features, together with expertise and engineering, AI/ML, utilized analysis, product improvement, product administration, information analytics and extra. According to Rawashdeh, the centre, which is anticipated to see upwards of 300 engineers, would play a strategic position for the corporate and would function a expertise innovation hub much like these within the U.S. and China. 

“Us coming to India at this level will not be a enterprise technique. It’s to not develop eBay’s enterprise in India,” mentioned Mr. Rawashdeh, calling it a ‘180-degree shift’ from the corporate’s earlier stint within the nation.  

“We by no means exited India. We stayed right here, however shrunk the footprint, and checked out supporting and augmenting the features outdoors of India. This time the technique is totally completely different,” he mentioned. 

Clarifying that the centre wouldn’t merely function a supporting position, however would construct, incubate and architect providers and features, together with engineering, design and product improvement, he mentioned that it’s going to have a semi-autonomous staff.

Mr. Rawashdeh added that the corporate is already in talks with the federal government and universities, much like how it’s completed within the U.S.

“We intend to construct these relationships, particularly with the schools from a analysis and improvement angle. That can be a nice pipeline to not solely convey expertise to the group, but in addition leverage the great expertise and information with the PhD college students and do joint analysis with them,” he mentioned.