How to Apply to NTT Data Group Corp.

12 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 88 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • NTT DATA Group Corporation is the Tokyo-headquartered global IT services holding company, with roughly 190,000 employees, ~¥4.4 trillion revenue, and operations in more than 50 countries.
  • The company became a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Corporation in 2024 (delisted from Tokyo Stock Exchange code 9613), but operates as an independent business under President and CEO Yo Honma.
  • Hiring runs through two distinct doors: the Japanese-language NTT DATA Group Japan recruiting portal for Japan-domestic roles, and the unified global Phenom People career site (careers.services.global.ntt) for the ~88+ open roles outside Japan.
  • The global careers site uses Phenom People (Career Connect), tenant NTT1GLOBAL — not Workday. Optimize your resume for Phenom's parser with a single-column layout, exact keyword matches, and complete profile fields.
  • The corporate footprint reflects acquisition history: NTT DATA Services (formerly Dell Services in Plano), NTT DATA Business Solutions (formerly itelligence in Europe), Acorio (Salesforce), and the Dimension Data legacy across Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe.
  • Interview culture is genuinely bimodal: highly formal Japanese convention for Japan-based roles (新卒 calendar, 履歴書, recruit suits), local professional norms for roles in every other country.
  • The strongest candidates show client-delivery outcomes, vendor certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow), cross-cultural collaboration, and specialist depth in one of the company's industry verticals.

About NTT Data Group Corp.

NTT DATA Group Corporation (株式会社NTTデータグループ) is the Tokyo-headquartered global IT services holding company that ranks among the world's top ten technology services providers. Headquartered at the NTT DATA Toyosu Center Building in the Toyosu waterfront district of Koto-ku, Tokyo, the group employs roughly 190,000 people across more than 50 countries and reported approximately ¥4.4 trillion in consolidated revenue. President and CEO Yo Honma leads a federation of subsidiaries that span systems integration, cloud and managed infrastructure, digital consulting, business process outsourcing, payments and financial technology, and a fast-growing portfolio of artificial intelligence services. The corporate structure that exists today is the result of a deliberate two-step reorganization. In July 2022, the parent NTT Corporation announced a restructuring that created NTT DATA Inc., a U.S.-incorporated overseas operating entity formed by combining the international businesses of the former NTT DATA Corporation with NTT Ltd., the global infrastructure carrier built around the legacy of Dimension Data, Dell Services, and other prior acquisitions. NTT DATA Group Corporation was then established as the listed Japanese parent that owned both the Japan-domestic NTT DATA Japan business and the consolidated international NTT DATA Inc. operations. In 2024, NTT Corporation completed a tender offer to take the group fully private, and NTT DATA Group Corporation was delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange (where it had traded under code 9613) and became a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT. This change matters for candidates because public-disclosure documents are now filed by the parent NTT Corporation, but operationally NTT DATA Group remains a distinct, independently managed business with its own CEO, its own brand, and its own hiring engine. The operating footprint reflects the merger heritage. NTT DATA Services in Plano, Texas is the descendant of the 2016 acquisition of Dell Services for roughly $3 billion, which itself absorbed the former Perot Systems. The European business inherited a strong SAP consulting practice from the 2014 acquisition of itelligence (now operating as the NTT DATA Business Solutions brand in many markets) and Salesforce expertise from the 2019 Acorio acquisition. The infrastructure, networking, and managed services backbone runs through the legacy Dimension Data operations across South Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Australia. India delivery centers in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, and Noida provide application development, BPO, and cloud-engineering capacity at scale, with similarly large presences in the Philippines, Spain (where NTT DATA Europe & LATAM is anchored from Madrid), Romania, Mexico, Brazil, and Costa Rica. For a job seeker, the practical consequence of this structure is that there is no single NTT DATA hiring experience. The Japan-domestic business hires through a culturally Japanese process oriented around the spring 新卒 (shinsotsu, new graduate) cycle and structured 中途 (chuuto, mid-career) recruiting. The global business hires through a unified Phenom People career site at careers.services.global.ntt that aggregates roughly 88+ open openings across the consulting, services, and technology delivery organizations. Subsidiaries with their own brands, including NTT DATA Business Solutions and certain joint ventures, sometimes maintain parallel local recruiting flows. Understanding which door to walk through is the first decision a candidate has to make.

Application Process

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    Identify which NTT DATA entity matches the role you want

    Identify which NTT DATA entity matches the role you want. Roles based in Japan with Japanese-language requirements run through the NTT DATA Group Japan recruiting portal at www.nttdata.com/global/ja/recruit/, which splits into 新卒採用 (new graduate, university and high-school graduates plus career professionals with under one year of experience), 経験者採用 (experienced hires, one year or more of professional experience), and 障がい者採用 (recruiting for persons with disabilities). Roles based outside Japan, including the Americas, EMEA, India, the Philippines, and Asia Pacific, run through the unified global careers portal at careers.services.global.ntt/global/en.

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    Search the global Phenom People site by keyword, country, city, category, workpl

    Search the global Phenom People site by keyword, country, city, category, workplace type (on-site, hybrid, remote), and job type. Filter aggressively rather than scrolling through 2,500 listings. The most common categories are Technology Solutions, Consulting, Sales, Cybersecurity, AI, Cloud Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Application Development, Managed Services, BPO/Service Desk, and Internships. Each filter narrows results in real time and the URL updates so you can bookmark or share filtered searches.

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    Read the job description with care

    Read the job description with care. NTT DATA listings are usually multi-paragraph and describe the client industry context, the technical stack, the contract or engagement type, and the country of employment. A role posted in Bari, Italy through the global portal is hired by NTT DATA Italia, governed by Italian labor law, and interviewed in Italian even though the job appears on a global English-language site. Confirm the legal employer in the description before assuming compensation, benefits, or work arrangements.

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    Create an account on the Phenom People career site (or sign in with LinkedIn or

    Create an account on the Phenom People career site (or sign in with LinkedIn or Indeed) and submit your application. The standard application accepts a resume upload, parses it into structured profile fields you must verify, and asks targeted screening questions about work authorization, language proficiency, salary expectations, and willingness to travel. Many country-specific applications require completing a separate diversity self-identification form that is legally required in that jurisdiction (EEO in the U.S., for example).

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    For Japan-domestic 新卒 (new graduate) applications, the process is fundamentally

    For Japan-domestic 新卒 (new graduate) applications, the process is fundamentally different. Candidates register on the NTT DATA new-grad recruiting site, attend information sessions (会社説明会), submit an entry sheet (エントリーシート), and progress through written tests (SPI or similar), group discussions, and multiple rounds of structured interviews timed to the Keidanren-aligned recruiting calendar. Offers are typically made between June and October for the following April start. Mid-career 経験者 applications run year-round through a separate flow that more closely resembles standard professional hiring.

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    After submission, expect an automated acknowledgment email within minutes

    After submission, expect an automated acknowledgment email within minutes. The first human review is conducted by an in-country recruiting team, not Tokyo headquarters. Initial screening typically happens within one to three weeks for hot requisitions and longer for general talent-community submissions. Roles tagged Talent Community on the Phenom site are not active openings; they collect profiles for future requisitions and may take months to surface a real conversation.

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    Track your application by signing back into the Phenom portal, where the My Appl

    Track your application by signing back into the Phenom portal, where the My Applications section shows current status (Applied, Under Review, Interviewing, Offer Extended, Closed). The Saved Jobs feature is useful but does not constitute an application. NTT DATA does not penalize candidates for applying to multiple roles, but recruiters do flag applications that look untargeted, so prioritize quality over quantity.

Resume Tips for NTT Data Group Corp.

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Match the language of the resume to the language of the posting

Match the language of the resume to the language of the posting. Roles posted in English on the global portal expect English resumes even when the work location is Italy, Spain, or India. Roles posted in Japanese on the NTT DATA Group Japan recruiting site expect Japanese-format resumes (履歴書 plus 職務経歴書) for mid-career applicants and the standard new-graduate entry sheet for shinsotsu applicants.

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Lead with measurable, client-anchored outcomes

Lead with measurable, client-anchored outcomes. NTT DATA is a services business, so recruiters scan for evidence that you have delivered for paying customers. Quantify the engagement size (contract value, number of users, transaction volume), the duration, the client industry, and the result. A bullet that reads 'Led SAP S/4HANA migration for a Fortune 100 retailer, $14M program, 3,200 stores live in 11 months, zero unplanned downtime' beats a bullet about responsibilities every time.

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Name the technologies the posting names

Name the technologies the posting names. Phenom People parses resumes into structured skill fields and also performs full-text matching against the requisition. If the role asks for AWS, Azure, Java 17, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Snowflake, ServiceNow, SAP S/4HANA, or Salesforce Service Cloud by name, those exact strings should appear in your skills section and in the bullet for the project where you used them.

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Show certifications prominently

Show certifications prominently. NTT DATA values vendor certifications because they map directly to client billable rates and partner-tier requirements. AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, SAP Certified Associate or Professional credentials, Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist, PMP, Prince2, ITIL 4, and CISSP all carry weight. Put them in a dedicated Certifications section near the top, not buried at the bottom.

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Tell the consulting story with a STAR-shaped structure

Tell the consulting story with a STAR-shaped structure. For each role, describe the Situation (client context), the Task (your scope), the Action (what you did, in your own words), and the Result (the measurable outcome). Recruiters at NTT DATA read hundreds of consultant resumes a week and reward bullets that show ownership of an outcome rather than membership in a team.

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Localize the format to the target country

Localize the format to the target country. U.S. resumes are one to two pages with no photo and no personal data. German and many continental European resumes (Lebenslauf) include a photo and date of birth by convention. Japanese 履歴書 follows a strict prescribed format with a photo, official name in kanji and furigana, and a chronological career history. Brazilian and Mexican resumes are commonly two to three pages with academic detail. Match the local norm for the listed work location.

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Be transparent about work authorization

Be transparent about work authorization. NTT DATA is a global employer, but each subsidiary hires under local labor law and most do not sponsor visas for entry-level or generalist roles. State your work authorization for the country of the role explicitly (for example, 'U.S. citizen, no sponsorship required' or 'EU passport holder, no visa required for Spain'). Senior specialists in scarce skills, including SAP, cloud architecture, AI engineering, and cybersecurity, do sometimes receive sponsorship.

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Avoid headers, footers, text boxes, and graphics that confuse automated parsing

Avoid headers, footers, text boxes, and graphics that confuse automated parsing. Phenom People's resume parser handles standard PDF and Word documents reliably but loses content placed in headers, footers, side columns, and tables. Use a simple, single-column layout with clear section headings (Professional Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications, Languages). Submit a PDF unless the application explicitly requests Word.

ATS System: Phenom People (Career Connect)

NTT DATA Group's global career site at careers.services.global.ntt is built on the Phenom People talent experience platform (tenant code NTT1GLOBAL), the same enterprise ATS used by AT&T, Lockheed Martin, ThermoFisher, and Lowe's. Phenom combines an applicant tracking system with a candidate-facing career portal, a recommendation engine, and a CRM for talent communities. The system parses uploaded resumes into structured profile fields, performs keyword matching against job requisitions, and routes applications to in-country recruiting teams who do the actual screening. The platform also powers the Talent Community sign-up that NTT DATA uses to nurture passive candidates between active openings.

  • Upload your resume as a PDF generated from a single-column Word or Google Docs document. Phenom's parser handles tables and multi-column layouts inconsistently and can scramble dates, employers, and titles when fields overlap visually.
  • After upload, open every parsed field in the application form and correct anything the parser got wrong. Wrong company names, transposed dates, and missing skills are the most common errors and they directly affect how recruiters search for you.
  • Use exact keyword matches from the job description, especially product and platform names like 'AWS', 'Microsoft Azure', 'SAP S/4HANA', 'Salesforce Sales Cloud', 'ServiceNow ITSM', 'Java 17', 'Python 3', 'Kubernetes', 'Terraform', 'Snowflake', and 'Databricks'. Phenom searches both structured skills and free-text resume content.
  • Complete the candidate profile fully, not just the required fields. Phenom's recommendation engine uses location preferences, willingness to relocate, languages spoken, years of experience, and certifications to surface your profile to recruiters even for roles you did not directly apply to.
  • Set up job alerts for the categories and countries you target. Phenom emails new matching requisitions daily, and applying within the first 48 hours of a posting materially improves your odds because recruiters often advance the first qualified batch they see.
  • Join the Talent Community for the country and category you want even if no exact role is open. NTT DATA recruiters actively search the talent community when a new requisition opens and warm pipelines move faster than cold applications.

Interview Culture

NTT DATA's interview culture is genuinely bimodal, and which mode you encounter depends entirely on which legal entity is hiring you.

For roles based in Japan and posted through the NTT DATA Group Japan recruiting site, interviews follow Japanese corporate convention. New-graduate (新卒) hiring runs on the calendar set by the Keidanren-aligned schedule, with information sessions (会社説明会) typically beginning in March of the year before April employment, written aptitude testing (SPI3 or similar) and entry-sheet review through the spring, group discussions and individual interviews through the early summer, and 内定 (naitei, informal job offer) delivered between June and October. Interviews are conducted in formal Japanese (敬語), candidates wear conservative recruit suits (リクルートスーツ), and the structured exchange of business cards is expected at the start of in-person rounds. Mid-career (経験者) interviews are less ritualized but still formal, typically two to three rounds spanning a hiring manager, a technical panel, and a senior leader, with the final decision often involving a personnel director from the relevant business unit. For roles based outside Japan and posted through the global Phenom careers site, the interview process matches the local professional norm of the country where you will work. A consultant role in Madrid runs the way Spanish professional services hiring runs: a recruiter screen, a hiring manager interview, a technical case or competency interview with two or three peers, and a final conversation with a partner-equivalent senior. A delivery engineer role in Bangalore runs the way Indian IT services hiring runs: a recruiter screen, one or two technical panels heavy on coding and system design, and an HR round that covers compensation, notice period, and joining logistics. A consulting role in Plano, Texas runs the way American management consulting hiring runs: a recruiter screen, a behavioral interview, a case interview, a culture-fit interview, and an offer call. Across all geographies and entities, several themes are consistent. Expect questions that probe client orientation, since NTT DATA bills its work to external clients and a candidate who has only ever worked on internal projects has to explain how they will adapt. Expect technical depth in your specialty, since NTT DATA staffs engagements based on demonstrable expertise, not generalist potential. Expect questions about your willingness to travel or relocate, since many delivery engagements are anchored at a client site for weeks or months. Expect at least one round to focus on cross-cultural collaboration, because nearly every project involves a delivery team in one country, a client in another, and a leadership team in a third. And expect the final conversation to include a clear discussion of compensation, benefits, and start date, because NTT DATA prefers to extend offers that the candidate is ready to accept on the call. The combination of a Japanese parent's deliberate, multi-stakeholder decision style and the local subsidiary's professional practice often produces a process that is slightly slower than a comparable U.S. tech company but materially more transparent than a typical large enterprise.

What NTT Data Group Corp. Looks For

  • Demonstrated client delivery experience. NTT DATA's revenue comes from billable engagements, so candidates who can describe specific projects they delivered for paying clients have a structural advantage over candidates whose experience is purely internal. Quantify the project scope, the client industry, and the outcome.
  • Vendor certifications that align with NTT DATA's partner ecosystem. The company holds top-tier partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Cisco, and several others. Certifications in any of these stacks demonstrably increase candidate competitiveness because they map directly to billable rates and partner-tier headcount requirements.
  • Cross-cultural and cross-time-zone collaboration. The company's operating model routinely combines a Japanese parent, a regional headquarters in Madrid or Plano, a delivery center in Bangalore or Manila, and a client in London or São Paulo. Candidates who have lived this model and can speak to it credibly outperform candidates who frame everything around a single co-located team.
  • Specialist depth over generalist breadth. NTT DATA staffs engagements based on demonstrable expertise in a specific stack (SAP module, AWS service family, Salesforce cloud, cybersecurity domain, AI framework). A candidate who claims working knowledge of fifteen technologies typically loses to a candidate with documented depth in three.
  • Language skills. Japanese language proficiency at JLPT N2 or higher is a near-prerequisite for roles based in Japan and meaningfully helpful for roles that interface with the Tokyo headquarters from outside Japan. Spanish helps in the Madrid-anchored Europe & LATAM region. Portuguese helps in the Brazil delivery center. English is the operating language for almost everything cross-border.
  • Industry knowledge. NTT DATA organizes its consulting and delivery practices by industry: financial services, public sector, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, automotive, and energy. Candidates who can demonstrate fluency with the regulatory environment, the dominant vendors, and the typical pain points of one of these industries are easier to staff and easier to promote.
  • Long-horizon orientation. The Japanese parent culture rewards candidates who frame their career in five-to-ten-year arcs rather than two-year hops. This matters less for short-term delivery roles and more for roles that lead into management, consulting partnership, or technical principal tracks. When asked about career goals, signal commitment without sounding rigid.
  • Comfort with the post-buyout reality. NTT Corporation's 2024 take-private of the listed group changed the public-disclosure cadence and removed some of the optionality of stock-based compensation. Candidates who research this and ask informed questions about long-term incentive structure, equity-equivalent programs, and decision-making authority signal that they have done their homework.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ATS does NTT DATA Group Corporation use for global hiring?
The unified global careers portal at careers.services.global.ntt is built on Phenom People (also branded Career Connect), with the tenant identifier NTT1GLOBAL. Phenom is an enterprise talent experience platform that combines an applicant tracking system, a candidate-facing career site, a recommendation engine, and a CRM for the company's Talent Community. Although some older registries list Workday, the live system is Phenom — verify by inspecting the page source, which loads assets from cdn.phenompeople.com.
Is NTT DATA Group still publicly traded?
No. NTT DATA Group Corporation traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under code 9613 until 2024, when its parent NTT Corporation completed a tender offer to take the group fully private. NTT DATA Group is now a 100% owned subsidiary of NTT Corporation. The operational business continues under the same CEO, brand, and management team, but financial disclosures now flow through the parent NTT Corporation rather than through NTT DATA Group's own public filings.
What is the difference between NTT DATA Group, NTT DATA Inc., and NTT DATA Japan?
NTT DATA Group Corporation is the top Japanese holding company. NTT DATA Inc. is the U.S.-incorporated overseas operating entity created in the July 2022 reorganization that combined the international NTT DATA business with NTT Ltd. (the Dimension Data heritage infrastructure carrier). NTT DATA Japan Corporation is the operating subsidiary that runs the Japan-domestic IT services business. As a candidate, the entity matters because it determines which recruiting portal you use, which legal employer you sign with, and which local labor law and benefits framework applies.
Where is NTT DATA Group headquartered?
The corporate headquarters is the NTT DATA Toyosu Center Building in the Toyosu waterfront district of Koto-ku, Tokyo. The Toyosu campus consolidates several Tokyo-area NTT DATA functions and is the formal registered head office of NTT DATA Group Corporation. The U.S.-incorporated NTT DATA Inc. operating company has its principal U.S. office in Plano, Texas, inherited from the 2016 acquisition of Dell Services.
What are the largest delivery centers outside Japan?
India is the largest, with major delivery hubs in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, and Noida that provide application development, testing, BPO, and cloud-engineering capacity. The Philippines (Manila, Cebu) anchors English-language BPO, service desk, and customer experience operations. Spain (Madrid) serves as the regional headquarters for Europe and Latin America. Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Romania add nearshore and language-specific capacity. The legacy Dimension Data operations across South Africa, Australia, and Asia Pacific contribute infrastructure and managed services delivery.
Does NTT DATA hire new graduates?
Yes, and the Japan-domestic 新卒 (shinsotsu) program is one of the largest single-employer new-graduate hiring efforts in Japan. The program follows the Keidanren-aligned spring recruiting calendar, with information sessions starting in March of the year before April employment, entry sheets and SPI testing through the spring, multiple interview rounds in the early summer, and 内定 informal offers between June and October. Outside Japan, individual subsidiaries run their own graduate and internship programs (Madrid, Plano, Manila, several Indian campuses) that follow local academic calendars and typically post on the global Phenom careers site under the Internships and Graduate categories.
Does NTT DATA sponsor work visas?
Sponsorship is decided per-role, per-subsidiary, and varies materially by country and seniority. Generalist and entry-level roles in most countries are filled with candidates who already have local work authorization. Specialist senior roles in scarce-skill areas — SAP S/4HANA architecture, cloud and platform architecture, cybersecurity, AI and machine learning engineering, and certain Salesforce and ServiceNow specialties — sometimes attract sponsorship when local talent supply is constrained. Always state your work authorization on your resume and confirm the specific role's sponsorship policy with the recruiter before investing significant time in interviews.
What kind of compensation should I expect at NTT DATA?
Compensation is set by the local subsidiary against the local market for IT services, not against U.S. tech-company benchmarks. Japan-domestic compensation follows the conservative Japanese large-corporate scale with seniority-weighted base pay, semi-annual bonuses, and strong benefits including comprehensive health insurance, housing allowances in some cases, and a defined-contribution retirement plan. U.S. compensation at NTT DATA Services in Plano follows the U.S. IT services market, with base salary, an annual bonus, health and dental, and a 401(k). European subsidiaries follow local norms including statutory holidays, works councils where applicable, and country-specific pension contributions. Equity-style long-term incentives are limited because the parent NTT Corporation took the listed group private in 2024; ask the recruiter about cash-based long-term incentive plans for senior roles.
How long does the NTT DATA hiring process typically take?
For active requisitions on the global Phenom site, expect roughly four to eight weeks from application to offer for individual contributor and consultant roles, and eight to twelve weeks for senior leadership roles that require multiple stakeholder approvals. Japan-domestic mid-career hiring runs roughly six to ten weeks. Japan-domestic new-graduate hiring runs across the full Keidanren calendar from initial information sessions to spring start, often nine to twelve months from first contact. Talent Community submissions without a matching active requisition can take months to surface a real conversation; if you are targeting a specific role, apply directly to that requisition rather than only joining the talent community.
Is Japanese language proficiency required?
For roles based in Japan and posted through the NTT DATA Group Japan recruiting portal, business-level Japanese (typically JLPT N2 or higher, with N1 strongly preferred for client-facing roles) is effectively required. For roles based outside Japan, Japanese is not required, but it is a meaningful asset for roles that interface with the Tokyo headquarters, with Japanese clients abroad, or with the Japan-anchored corporate functions. The operating language for most cross-border collaboration is English, and many Tokyo-headquartered functions conduct executive meetings in English to accommodate the global leadership team.

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