IT Giant to Hire 20 Thousand Freshers, Infosys Announces Massive Recruitment Drive and Salary Hikes Up to 12%

Indian IT giant Infosys is all set to onboard over 20,000 freshers in Financial Year 2026 (FY26). The company also confirmed that it successfully met its hiring target for FY 2025, bringing in between 15,000 and 20,000 fresh graduates over the year.

Massive Hiring in Infosys

Infosys Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jayesh Sanghrajka reportedly said, "In terms of hiring, we are expecting to hire 20,000-plus freshers."

The company board while announcing FY Q4 earnings on April 17 announced, "We are on track on wage hikes. Large part of the increments were rolled out in January, and the balance will be rolled out effective April 1. We plan to hire 20,000 plus freshers in FY26."

In the last quarter, FY25 Q4 which ended on 31st March 2025, Infosys gave jobs to 199 new employees. In FY25, Infosys hired a total of 6,388 people. Now the employees at Infosys increased to 3,23,578. Last year, in FY24, the employee count was 3,17,240 with a small increase in the workforce. Earlier, the company had planned to hire up to 20,000 freshers in the financial year 2024-25.

However, the attrition rate of Infosys for the last 12 months also went up to 14.1%, compared to 13.7% in the December 2024 quarter.

As per news reports in February this year, Infosys laid off around 400 trainees at its Mysuru (commonly known as Mysore) training centre. These trainees were removed from the training program because they failed their evaluation test three times. Around half of them had joined the company in October 2024, but could not pass the required tests to continue in the job.

Infosys Hikes Employee's Salary

Infosys has given an average salary increase of 5% to 8% to its employees this year. Employees who performed very well received higher hikes, between 10% and 12%.

Infosys FY 2025 Q4 Results

Even though there were some challenges, Infosys managed to do better than expected in terms of revenue. The company raised its revenue growth estimate for the year to 4.5%-5%, which is higher than its earlier estimate of 3.75%-4.5%.