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Published on Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 15:00, Updated on Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 15:08 in 
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New Delhi: IT engineers may be dime-a-dozen in India, but internet search engine leader Google is having a hard time finding candidates with the right skill sets in the country.
Google, which is considered to have a very low attrition rate even in the high-job-hopping Indian IT space, has found it more challenging to hire certain talent in India as compared to other parts of the world, the company's founder-director Kavitark Ram Shriram admitted recently.
The Indian origin founding board member of Google and a well-known venture capitalist said at an 'Investing in India' conference in San Francisco, "I know first hand that we have had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire engineers for Google in Bangalore compared to the other parts of the world."
The daunting admission comes from an influential board member of a company which puts a prominent link of 'We're Hiring' on the home page of its India website.
Besides, the company claims to encourage its employees "to make their dreams a reality," to provide "a fun atmosphere" to work, along with other benefits like "mediclaim insurance, life insurance, business travel/personal accident insurance, sick time, maternity leave, paternity leave and family care leave."
When contacted, a Google India spokesperson declined to comment on the issues raised by Shriram, but said the company was very pleased with the talent it had found in India.
The spokesperson told PTI, "We are building global centres to be at the same quality throughout the world and Google Bangalore R&D centre is an important part of the Google innovation story."
The Bangalore centre was one of Google's first R&D centres outside the US and was set up with a charter to innovate, implement, and launch new Google technologies and products. The company's Google Finance service was first developed at this centre.
"We are very pleased with the way this centre has grown and with the talent we have found in India," the spokesperson said.
The company director, who was among the two Indians in the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, cited the shortage of right talent with certain skills in web development and web design technology areas as well as at middle-manager levels.
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