TCS makes only 25k fresher offers this fiscal

mumbai

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has made 25,000 offers to freshers in the current fiscal, and pointed out that the demand scenario will determine whether it hires more college graduates, a top official has said.

The largest information technology services company had hired 44,000 freshers in FY26, one of the highest by any private sector employer in the country, despite the headwinds it faced.

"We have made 25,000 offers for freshers in FY27. Clarity on demand will lead to more hiring," Chief Executive and Managing Director K Krithivasan told PTI in an interview over the weekend.

When asked if the company will up its dependence on lateral hires and if the delivery model has undergone any change, he replied in the negative.

Explaining that it takes up to nine months of training before a fresher comes on the floor, while a lateral can deliver immediately, he said business needs will influence its hiring strategies.

The company has been hiring 40,000 or more freshers every fiscal year for at least three years now.

When asked if there is a possibility of another round of restructuring like the one in FY26, when it laid off at least 12,000 staffers, Krithivasan limited himself to saying that people can have thriving careers with the company till they perform well.

Denying that the ingress of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies had anything to do with the layoffs last year, Krithivasan said the company had to let go of people, mostly senior-level talent, because the style of executing projects had changed of late, and the senior layer was no longer required.