After Amazon, Few Other Top E-Commerce Companies Announce Job Vacancies: Details!

Amid coronavirus lockdown and crisis, top e-commerce companies such as Amazon, Grofers, Paytm Mall and others have opened up their hiring process as online shopping becomes the new normal. As consumers are taking the online route for shopping during these hard times, there is a rise in growth in the businesses of internet companies. 

A day after, Amazon announced 20,000 temporary new jobs in the customer service segment in various cities across India. Other companies have also opened opportunities for interested candidates. Talking about Amazon, job vacancies are available in cities like Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, Noida, Kolkata, Jaipur, Indore, Bhopal and Lucknow, among others. 

As per Financial Express report, other companies such as Bigbasket and Grofers in the e-grocery segment, Paytm Mall, which is e-commerce arm of financial services platform Paytm, BharatPe in the financial technology category, Licious in online meat delivery, NoBroker.com in online real estate category, and Ecom Express in logistics category have also announced fresh opportunities especially at a time when other companies have announced pay cuts and layoffs.

Not just in e-commerce, but internet companies are also expecting further boom in the coming months. 

“We are continuously evaluating hiring needs across the customer service organisation in response to the growing customer demand. We estimate that customer traffic will further scale up over the next six months with the onset of Indian and global holiday seasons,” Akshay Prabhu, director of customer service, Amazon India, said. 

Amazon had recently announced job opportunities for 50,000 candidates. Amid lockdown, e-commerce business is going up, similar growth is also expected for logistics business, which in turn has increased hirings process as well. 

Meanwhile, a third-party logistics firm - Ecom Express, which works for e-commerce companies like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Myntra, Paytm, and others stated that they will hire 7,000 people over the next two months, Financial Express further reported. 

These job opportunities are open for cities such as Ahmedabad, Surat, Chandigarh, Indore, Patna and others.