Double pay: TCS makes an offer to freshers that perhaps no one can refuse

Fresh graduates have been offered a starting salary of about Rs 6.5 lakh per annum but there is one catch

Just out of college, around 1,000 freshers have been offered a welcome gift by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) -- almost double the salary it normally pays. However, there was one condition, they had to clear a test.

Fresh graduates, with new-age digital skills, have been offered a starting salary of about Rs 6.5 lakh per annum. The entry-level salary of Indian engineers in the IT industry has been stuck at about Rs 3.5 lakh per annum for the past decade, a report in The Times of India said.

The selection of these candidates was based on a test focused on