IBM has 500 job openings in India

BENGALURU: IBM put out over 500 job openings in India on its LinkedIn page in the last one week and over 200 new opportunities in just the last 24 hours, an indication that India continues to be the mainstay for the $77-billion technology company.

IBM does not disclose employee numbers by geography, but it is estimated that about a third of its workforce of 350,000 is in India, more than even in its homeground US. Americans unhappy with this often expand the company acronym as India Business Machines, instead of International Business Machines.

The open positions are for people managers, middleware administrators, data scientists, network architects, incident management and cloud architects. On the IBM India career page, there are some 566 openings. In the US, it had about 91 new positions on LinkedIn in the past 24 hours. It has over 400 openings on its US career page.