SAP to Hire Disproportionally in India
The SAP laboratory in Munich currently employs 700 people (Source), and the number of general SAP employees in Germany amounts to 20,000. (SourceSAP Labs India currently has 15,000 employees and is the largest lab outside of Germany. SAP is building a second office in Bengaluru, with an additional capacity of 15,000 people. This would imply the end goal is around 30,000 employees in SAP Labs India. This is a noteworthy development, as at the beginning of the year, mass layoffs (up to 10,000 positions) were announced for SAP Germany.
We will over proportionally hire [in India] versus all the other labs.
Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board, SAP
Klein also stated that a majority of future investments into research and development and customer success will go to India, but did not divulge specifics on hiring numbers or timelines. In addition, SAP's India location houses the company's main AI team.