According to a story in Reuters India, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) will add more than 3500 people to its current China based staff of 1300 over the next four years.

“TCS, India’s largest IT firm, also said it expects Asian revenues will grow next year despite the economic slowdown and retrenchments by the region’s banks, due to its large pipeline of existing projects.”

The story reports that TCS currently has centers in Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, with some sort of operation in Shenzhen.

Since TCS already employs more than a thousand people in China, one hopes that the company understands how to recruit, motivate and retain top talent there.  However, given the challenges that other big Indian firms have encountered in the Middle Kingdom, along with the very viable alternatives to work for an MNC, or a Chinese outsourcing firm, I’m skeptical that TCS is really able to recruit the “A” players in China.

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