Indian IT Firms Sharply Cut Down Engineering Intake
By SiliconIndia | Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 14:15 IST
Bangalore: IT Firms like Wipro, HCL and Infosys have significantly reduced the number of engineering talent intake. From 5 lakh freshers every year, the numbers have gone down below 2 lakhs due to certain significant reasons.
Though one of them would be the slowdown in global IT demand, the other reason is to move towards ‘sophisticated and complex’ tasks that require skilled engineers as reported by ET.