TCS, Infosys and HCLTech add staff in Q2: what it means for freshers

5 Nov 2026 · By Amol Pagar

India's biggest IT companies have shared their July–September 2026 (Q2 FY27) results, and the hiring numbers are better than in most recent quarters. Three of the four largest companies added people, and two of them took in thousands of fresh graduates.

The numbers, company by company

TCS grew by a net 4,258 employees to 598,056, its third quarter of growth in a row. Attrition eased to 13.3%. TCS says it is focusing on upskilling its staff and bringing in people with in-demand skills.
Infosys added 4,480 people, taking its headcount to 332,542. It hired more than 8,000 college graduates in the quarter, and says it has crossed half of its plan to hire about 20,000 freshers this financial year.
HCLTech added 6,450 people, its biggest quarterly rise in four years, to reach 230,339. 6,136 of the new joiners were freshers, against just 1,056 in the April–June quarter.
Wipro went the other way: its headcount fell by 6,716 to 236,328.

What this means for job seekers

For freshers, this is the most useful news in a while. Infosys and HCLTech are clearly taking in graduates again, and Infosys still has roughly half of its yearly fresher plan left for the October–March period. If you are graduating in 2026 or 2027, keep your profile ready on each company's careers page and watch for off-campus drives.

For experienced engineers, the picture is mixed. Companies are hiring, but carefully, and mostly for skills they cannot find in-house: cloud, data, AI and cybersecurity come up again and again. Experience in one of these areas makes your application much stronger.

Attrition is steady at about 13% across the big firms. That means fewer people are leaving, so companies backfill fewer roles. Growth in openings now depends on new projects rather than on people switching jobs.

What you can do now

Apply only through official careers pages. Every job on Daily IT Jobs links to the company's own page.
Be ready for a coding test. Most fresher drives start with an online assessment covering aptitude and basic programming.
Add one cloud or data skill to your profile, even at a beginner level, since these are the skills companies say they are hiring for.
Never pay anyone for a job offer. TCS, Infosys, HCLTech and Wipro do not charge candidates any fee.

You can browse the latest fresher jobs or all open software engineer jobs on Daily IT Jobs. Each listing links to the official company page and is checked every day.

Sources: TCS Q2 FY27 fact sheet, Business Today, The Hans India, People Matters, Storyboard18.