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Meta opens new office in Bengaluru

Meta is opening a new office in Bengaluru to expand its engineering and product teams, with 41 job openings for software, machine learning, and hardware engineers.

This move follows similar expansions by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Meta has been in India for over 15 years, with offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

A Meta spokesperson said that the company is hiring in Bengaluru as part of its evolving location strategy to support long-term investments.

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