IT firms Infosys, Wipro to speed up fresher hiring in FY26

IT companies including TCS, Infosys and Wipro reported their third quarter results in January, with most of them posting muted numbers. However, all the firms gave positive estimates for fresher hiring in the new fiscal year.

ET had reported in December that as growth returns to the $254-billion IT industry, outsourcing majors will add more frontline jobs at junior and entry levels. This will help reduce costs and bring younger and more flexible engineers in the fold.

Infosys


A senior Infosys executive said that the company will increase its hiring target to 20,000 freshers next year compared with 15,000 this year.

India’s second-largest IT services company posted a better-than-expected 11.4% increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 6,806 crore for the December quarter from the year earlier, driven by a healthy rebound in the financial services and manufacturing segments.

Wipro

Wipro, India’s fourth-largest IT services company, announced plans to hire 10,000-12,000 freshers from campuses in the financial year 2025-26.

Saurabh Govil, chief human resources officer (CHRO) of Wipro, stated that while there may be quarterly adjustments, the company intends to onboard this number of new graduates each fiscal year. For the current fiscal year, Wipro has hired around 7,000 freshers by Q3.

The company saw a 24.5% year-on-year (YoY) jump in net profit at Rs 3,366.7 crore for the October to December quarter of the ongoing fiscal year.

TCS

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CHRO Milind Lakkad said the IT major has plans to increase the number of fresher hirings from engineering campuses in 2025-26 from the current fiscal’s commitment of 40,000 amid higher growth prospects.

He added that while hiring and training freshers is core to TCS' strategy, it is also focusing on training students in the last few semesters and then hiring for multiple technologies once they graduate.

TCS said its net profit grew to Rs 12,380 crore in the third quarter of fiscal 2025, clocking a lower-than-expected expansion of 3.9% sequentially and 5.5% year-on-year.

HCLtech

Billionaire Shiv Nadar-promoted HCLTech trimmed fresher hiring plans for FY25 from 10,000 at the start of the year to about 7,000, of which 6,000 have already been hired in the first nine months of the fiscal.