Baidu, China’s largest online search company, is planning to hire software engineers directly from Silicon Valley early next month, a move reflecting its growing ambitions to match the technological prowess of rival Google and expand overseas.
The company yesterday said it would attend a job fair in the US on July 10 and that it had 30 positions to fill.
“These could be Chinese, people from Taiwan or Hong Kong, or citizens of any other country,” Baidu said. The initiative marks the beginning of changes in Baidu’s personnel policy. So far, less than 10 of the company’s more than 8,000 employees hold passports from countries other than China.