Cognizant's CEO is hiring over 20,000 entry-level graduates this year

“I'm going to hire more entry-level school graduates than last year.” At the Fortune COOS ummit, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said the company plans to hire more than 20,000 graduates this year—including biologists, historians, and candidates from non-STEM backgrounds. "We only hired engineers before," Kumar S said. "What we want to do is to give people a chance."