TCS hands out 24,000 job offers amid hiring blues in IT sector

In 2015, offer letters were issued to over 40,000 freshers, which declined to 35,000 in 2016

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has given 20,000 job offers to fresh graduates and another 4,000 to non-freshers this year, a top executive said on Wednesday, even as hiring of engineers by the information technology (IT) industry is expected to decline in the coming years. Around 70 per cent of those offered jobs are expected to join the company — a trend seen in the previous years too.

Ajoyendra Mukherjee, executive vice-president and head of global human resources, TCS, said the company had carried out an off-campus recruitment drive in January- February.

Last year, TCS, India’s largest software services