Infosys to hire over 8,000 new employees in Pune in six months

PUNE: Indian IT major Infosys will recruit more than 8,000 employees in Pune over the next six months as part of its expansion plans for which it getting an additional 150 acres in the city. Infosys already employs over 15,000 IT professionals at its existing facilities in the city.

"We will shortly begin operations at our new building in Hinjewadi Phase-II. We are looking at growth across verticals, like finance, insurance, banking, energy, retail and manufacturing, for which we will hire nearly 4,200 software professionals across all forms of expertise. We also plan to hire an equal number of heads again around March when our third facility becomes functional," Pravin Kulkarni, Infosys associate vice-president, said here on the sidelines of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative.