We never stopped hiring in India, says IBM India MD Sandip Patel

While there are pockets of recessionary tendencies that we see in different parts of the world, I believe that India is in a good spot, says IBM India MD Sandip Patel

For IBM Corporation, India remains the bright spot. Its India business is growing. Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India, says this geography is the perfect microcosm of the global firm. In conversation with Shivani Shinde and Sourabh Lele, he talks about the focus for 2023, how it is pivoting the artificial intelligence (AI) model to work for India, and continues to hire (the IBM careers page shows over 3,000 openings in India). Edited excerpts:

With recessionary trends impacting the global economy, how is India looking?

While there are pockets of recessionary tendencies that we see in different parts of the