TCS campus hiring plans intact despite job cuts

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is pressing ahead with campus hiring plans, even as it navigates the retrenchment of over 12,000 middle and senior executives.

- Jas Bardia & Devina Sengupta

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is pressing ahead with campus hiring plans, even as it navigates the retrenchment of over 12,000 middle and senior executives. Placement executives at multiple engineering colleges said India's largest information technology (IT) services company emailed last week to select graduates through its hackathon programme, and also as part of its usual hiring plans.

The outreach signals that India's biggest private employer continues to prioritize lower-cost, entry-level talent, particularly those skilled in emerging technologies, while trimming its more expensive, seasoned workforce. The move, coming at a time of broader slowdown in foreign markets and domestic business challenges, underscores TCS's cost-saving measures and its strategic pivot towards a younger, digitally fluent workforce.

"The mails for their hackathon called CodeVita came in last week," the head of placement at an engineering college said, referring to the coding contest that TCS organizes to identify and recruit top coding talent. "Last year (for the batch of 2025), TCS recruited about 80 students, but this year's numbers are not confirmed.