Our hiring has come down but we will still hire: Cognizant's Chatterjee

From that perspective, any growth that will happen now will definitely necessarily mean that there will be a net headcount addition, said Debashis Chatterjee

Debashis Chatterjee, president for global delivery at Cognizant, the US multinational professional services entity, speaks to Gireesh Babu & Bibhu Ranjan Mishra on his biz outlook, hiring plans & allied matters. Edited excerpts:

You met the upper end of the revenue expectation for the March quarter and have given a strong one for June. Were these not enough to revise upward the full-year forecast?

We had a solid start to 2018 and remain one of the fastest growing among services companies. If you talk about revenue guidance, we still expect  revenue growth of eight to 10 per cent and have