Wipro Limited, the India-based information technology, consulting and business process services company headquartered in Bengaluru, India has increased fresher salaries to Rs 3.5 lakh per annum, from about 3.2 lakh per annum.
“We are also introducing a coding test to improve the quality of hires. We are looking to roll out a broad-based national talent test to expand the reach of our hiring process. We are hiring 25-30% more than last year,” said Wipro president and chief human resources officer Saurabh Govil.
Earlier this year TCS adopted the same strategy to hire potential talents. TCS announced a national test called NQT to hire engineering students across the country.
These steps taken by the companies show us the lengths that companies are ready to go to hire required talents in the demanding market.
Wipro has a three-tier campus outreach. The first involves hires from star colleges like the IITs, and they are offered an average salary of Rs 12 lakh. Then there’s what it calls the turbo programme, where it pays Rs 6.5-7 lakh per employee. And then there are the traditional hires.
Govil said Wipro is working with colleges to train students on specific modules. “We have collapsed the internal training period to 1-2 weeks in some cases to deploy them faster,” he said.
The initial salary of Wipro’s campus recruits had remained the same for many years.
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