Snapdeal to triple employee count this financial year

Keeping in mind the end goal to pander to the expanded growth in online sales, Snapdeal is tripling its headcount. Snapdeal will be increase its technology, sales and vendor improvement, customer administration and the supply chain teams with crisp hiring.

Toward the end of last fiscal, Snapdeal had an aggregate headcount of 1,300 and the target was to twofold it before the end of this fiscal. Then again, by September, it touched a head count of in excess of 2,500. Getting up to speed with the growth trajectory in sales, the company will be presently more forceful with hiring to have 3,500 to 4,000 individuals ready for, Saurabh Nigam, VP-HR, Snapdeal.

"Taking a gander at how we have developed not long from now and the way we are bullish in accomplishing business goals and expanding topline and piece of the overall industry, we will be further increase our hiring. Technology is the key driver and this will be an area where we have to reinforce ourselves. We have a technology team size of 400 and before the year's over the team size will be in excess of 1,000," he said.

Snapdeal is additionally dispatching another technology improvement focus in Bangalore, which will have a headcount of 250 individuals.

To fortify the vendor base and create the merchant system, the company will be expanding the team size from 250 to 600 by the year-end. The customer administration team, which basically involves the call focus faculty, will twofold its size to 1,200.

Snapdeal is taking to forceful grounds hiring, setting off to 25 to 30 level I and II B-schools to get 100 to 150 administration freshers ready for. Also it will likewise go to 60 to 65 designing schools to choose 500 designers. Of the aggregate recruitment, in excess of 30 per cent will go the distance employee referrals and 18 to 20 per cent through online / social networking. The company is likewise reaching recruitment and counseling firms for senior administration level persons.