Infosys has invited its senior employees to be on panels to visit colleges and interview students for jobs at the software giant, signalling a revival of campus hiring after two years. Their remit would be to visit colleges across the country and recruit digital specialist engineers (DSE), people in the know told ET.
This is the first time Infosys is sending a mass email to senior employees at the job levels of manager and above. As part of the evaluation process, Infosys executives will assess the potential candidates on programming fundamentals and problem-solving skills required for entry-level DSE roles, according to the email reviewed by ET.
Senior employees at job-level five (JL5) and above with at least one year of service at the company and with a performance rating of ‘met expectations’ or above can offer themselves to be on the panels. They will visit campuses and conduct in-person interviews for roles at its development centres pan-India, the mail added.
Infosys did not respond to queries.
IT majors including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro had cut down on campus as well as lateral hiring since Covid in response to a business slowdown. Infosys witnessed a substantial decline in fresher hiring at 11,900 in FY24, compared with 50,000 the year before.
The number, however, rose to 15,000 in FY25, and the Bengaluru-based IT major has maintained its fresher hiring target of 15,000-20,000 through both off and on-campus programmes for the ongoing fiscal year ending March 2026. While TCS, the market leader, has announced layoffs of over 2%, or around 12,000, of its workforce at senior and mid-level positions, the Tata Group company and the next three largest IT firms plan to hire more than 70,000 graduates combined in FY26, in an indication of improving job environment for new graduates.
The campus recruitment happens alongside the AI-led disruption unsettling the $283 billion IT outsourcing industry. Companies are focusing on AI-native and specialised skills for new recruitments and reskilling and upskilling existing employees.
The mass emails to senior employees, a person said, suggested Infosys is serious about meeting many students in the upcoming campus interview season, expected to begin in October and last till November end. The company had resorted to online interviews during the Covid pandemic.
The fresher recruitment also follows Infosys laying off around 800 trainees from the 2022 batch since February, citing failure to clear internal assessments.
As part of the latest campus hiring process, Infosys will conduct in-person aptitude test, group discussion, technical round, managerial round and HR round with the first four taking place on the campus at over ten tier-2 and -3 engineering colleges. The process will take place across branches such as electrical, electronics, telecom, computer science, information technology, civil and mechanical.
“In reputed colleges, we will get up to 1,000 students from all branches. We interview students in the seventh semester as those found fit will have to head for training at the global education centre at Mysuru campus after the eighth semester,” a person familiar with the process said.
These are entry-level jobs for candidates who are hired as trainees. They will get absorbed as full-time employees only after successful completion of training at Mysuru.
In June this year, Infosys introduced a reward policy for senior employees, offering cash incentives for conducting interviews for lateral hirings.