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gaspropelled on Feb 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describ...

IBM has around 120,000 employees in India, around 90,000 in the US and around 20,000 in the UK. Around 35 billion dollars of IBM's revenue ( ie: around 35% )comes from IBM India.

ninv on Feb 12, 2014 [–]

If they cutting in low cost centers, then you can imagine, how bad the things are.

iends on Feb 12, 2014 | [–]

I'm not so sure. IBM seems to hire really cheap developers in India, so it could be they've realized they need to hire better engineers in the first place.

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