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so TCS says it'll hire 42,000 freshers
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this year and what about Infosys 20,000
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and even Vipro after months of silence
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is joining back in so why is Indian IT
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hiring again and more importantly should
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you be excited now watch till the end to
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find out why so why is Indian IT
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rebuilding its talent pyramid you know
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mid-level attrition is rising gcc
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startups and foreign clients are all
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poaching employees here meanwhile
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freshers they mean lower salaries easier
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to train and higher deployability and
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Cognizant even called it out hiring
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20,000 freshers to support its AI and
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manage services growth and it's cheaper
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faster and fills the gaps that seniors
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leave behind so the bench is shrinking
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and the utilization is rising more than
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ever look Infosys now runs at an 82%
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utilization and wants to hit 85% meaning
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bench time has dropped from 60 to 35
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days so hiring freshers ensures they can
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be deployed early and cheaply and more
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heads on the project simply mean better
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margins right but it also means no room
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for slow learners so that explains
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Infosys recent layoff of over 400
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trainee at its Mysuru campus all let go
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after failing internal evaluations and
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TCS also just had its slowest growth in
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4 years and Infosys profits fell and
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Vipro also played it safe so why are
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they hiring now so they're betting on
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the second half of FY 2026 for demand
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recovery and preparing for delayed
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projects and not just the current deals
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and AI cloud infra modernization may
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also pick up after the third quarter so
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all in all is just a buffer hire
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strategy and meanwhile Indian IT also
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says it's all in on AI so does that mean
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fewer jobs but TCS says that AI hasn't
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reduced hiring and Cognizant says that
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30,000 employees are trained and 40,000
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more are in the pipeline so Infosys and
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HCL2 are ramping upskilling but also not
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cutting the fresher roles so all in all
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AI is just changing the delivery models
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but for now humans still drive the
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execution look TCS deferred hikes and
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Infosys gave 5 to 8% while the best
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performers got somewhere around 10 to
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12% and Vipro still says wait till
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September for hikes and HCLtech is
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sticking all the way to October and what
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about Tech Mahindra they've also
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postponed it again so yes hiring is
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happening but don't expect a party right
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because then there's attrition there's
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GCC's and also pressure adding up take a
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look at attrition they're also rising
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again because Infosys touched 14.1% and
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TCS is at 13.3% and GCC's or you know
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global capability centers they're
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offering better pay faster growth and
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internal project roles so while IT firms
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are losing mid-level engineers due to
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these factors rehiring ex employees and
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running leaner benches seem to be the
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solution and hiring pressures is also a
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part of the defense strategy end of the
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day it's not just about growth it's also
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about survival so is the Indian IT back
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all things considered not really but
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it's rebuilding reshuffling and also
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rebalancing what about the hiring spree
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it's a bet on recovery and AI and also
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about staying relevant and for freshers
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yes definitely this is a chance but not
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a guarantee by any means so let us know
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