Lateral hiring: TCS to hold interviews in Mumbai, Bengaluru, other cities on Saturday
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India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is holding interviews for lateral hiring for mid-level roles at its offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune, among other locations, on June 14, in a sign of increasing demand for experienced and skilled technology professionals.In Bengaluru, TCS has said that it will hold walk-in in-person interviews at its office at Brigade Bhuwalka Icon on ITPL main road in Whitefield from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm, paving the way for skilled workers to join its AI-Cloud team , according to a public notice by TCS.The Tata subsidiary is looking for people with experience ranging from 5-15 years, and it differs from role to role. The company is seeking to recruit people with skills in Java fullstack & Microservices developer, Azure data engineer, Power BI developer, Workfront Fusion developer, Python developer, Microservices (GCP cloud run), Azure devops, and AWS DevOps+Terraform.This comes after a lull in overall hiring in the financial year ending March 2025 due to continued macro uncertainties, which escalated in February as tariff wars initiated by the US government. The US is the largest market for software outsourcing majors. This led to a pause in technology demand from corporate clients.TCS had added a meagre 625 employees during the fourth quarter of FY25. This came after a reduction of 5,370 employees in the December quarter.TCS did not respond to an email seeking details.Traditionally, the largest recruiters of engineering professionals, the software service providers, have been slowing their employee intake over the past two years.The latest face-to-face interviews to be held by TCS come after it organised similar recruitment rounds in March and April in five cities. Details of the vacancies and hiring numbers were not immediately available.The hiring drive would help the company support the ongoing and new projects, according to people close to the development.The TCS hiring comes alongside its smaller rival Infosys undertaking a similar lateral hiring exercise. In March, Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys had put out an internal mail stating it was looking for people across 40-plus skill sets, including cloud computing, cyber security, Java Python, dotnet, Android/IoS development, and automation testing.Last week, ET reported that Infosys has also introduced a cash reward policy for senior employees who conduct interviews for lateral hiring, in what is seen as a move to focus on skilled mid-level positions as well as to boost employee morale.
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