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HCL Tech to hire 2,000 IBM employees as part of $1.8 bn software deal

We have hired a number of people who are customer experience architects, cloud architects, said HCL Tech

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HCLT, earlier this month, surpassed Wipro to become the third-largest IT services firm in India in 2018-19

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Noida-based HCL Technologies plans to take on board nearly 2,000 IBM employees. In December 2018, HCL Tech announced that it would buy eight software products or IPs from IBM at $1.8 billion, making it the single-largest acquisition by any Indian IT firm. The deal, which is expected to be sealed by June, 2019, will giveHCL Tech access to over 5,500 clients globally, along with IBM's 2,000 employees.

With IBM products, we have inherited somewhere around 1,500-2,000 people,” Apparao VV, chief human resources officer, HCL Tech told ET.

The IMB products that HCL will get are:

The products include Appscan, for

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