Freshers back in demand as IT companies revive campus hiring drive

Infosys, HCL, and Wipro ramp up fresher intake as AI reshapes skills demand and hiring shifts from 'hire to train' to 'train to hire'

Indian information technology (IT) services companies have resumed campus hiring and onboarding engineering graduates after a lull of two years, even as the macroeconomic environment stays sluggish and technology spending remains under tight control.

 

Companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCLTech, and Wipro are in the process of meeting their fresher hiring targets for the ongoing financial year of 2025-26 (FY26). They had said at the start of FY26 that campus recruitment would be higher this time.

 

Infosys said last week that it hired 12,000 freshers in the first half of the year, and that it remains on