Wipro
Indian IT services firm; first major outsourcer to set zero fresher hiring target.
Wipro became the first of India's big IT outsourcers to set a zero fresher-hiring target for FY27 in April 2026; its Q1 results, reported 16 July, confirmed the pledge held even as total headcount rose by 888.
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AI: Jobs, Power & MoneyBackground
Wipro is an Indian multinational IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in 1945 by Mohamed Premji as a vegetable oil producer and pivoted to computing under his son Azim Premji in the 1980s.
It is one of India's four largest IT outsourcers, serving clients in banking, healthcare, energy and manufacturing worldwide, competing directly with TCS, Infosys and HCLTech for the same global services contracts.
Wipro's zero fresher-hiring pledge, set in April 2026, made it the first of the big Indian outsourcers to formally close its campus recruitment pipeline for a full fiscal year, a policy stance that put it ahead of TCS's and Infosys's own more gradual headcount contraction rather than behind it .
Wipro grew headcount without hiring freshers
Wipro set its graduate hiring target for the financial year starting April 2026 at zero, down from 7,500 the year before, while total headcount barely moved . Its Q1 FY27 results, reported 16 July, confirmed the pledge held: no fresh engineering graduates were onboarded in the quarter.
Yet headcount still rose, a net addition of 888 to 243,044, even as net profit stayed nearly flat and margins fell to a 15-quarter low . Attrition held at 13.8% and utilisation fell across FY26 from 86.4% to 83.5%, evidence Wipro is replacing attrition and hiring laterally while deliberately excluding graduates, not shrinking outright.
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