PwC India plans to hire 1,200 for its Kolkata labs

NEW DELHI: PwC India is planning to hire 1,200 people from engineering and data analytics background in the next year for its labs in Kolkata. The new hires will work for its newly inaugurated future ready IoT Lab and the Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence. The company will also hire talent in domains like digital experience led transformation, cloud and blockchain.

These facilities or labs are located in PwC’s newly constructed 60,000 sq ft facility in Kolkata. These labs will be used to incubate new solutions to address issues that are impacting businesses globally like Industry 4.0, responsible AI, Blockchain etc, according to company release.

“Today, we are 6000 people strong in the region and are committed to develop the pool here by offering them multi competency growth opportunities,” Arnab Basu, Managing Partner- East, PwC India said.