Wipro onboarded 7,500 freshers during the financial year 2025-26 but declined to share any campus hiring outlook for FY27, the company’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Saurabh Govil, disclosed at a press conference following the firm’s Q4FY26 earnings release on April 16, 2026.
The disclosure came alongside the company’s fourth-quarter earnings, where leadership flagged volatile demand conditions and offered no forward guidance on workforce expansion for the coming fiscal year.
Wipro’s CHRO, Saurabh Govil, confirmed that the company hired over 3,000 freshers in the March quarter alone. The FY26 number, however, fell short of the 10,000-12,000 range Wipro had projected at the start of the fiscal year. At the time of that announcement, Govil had emphasised a cautious yet consistent approach to avoid overcommitting, as the company reassessed hiring models to improve employee utilisation and protect margins.
The shortfall continues a multi-year downward trend in campus intake at the Bengaluru-based IT major. Campus hiring has declined significantly over four consecutive years, with FY25 onboarding approximately 10,000 freshers and FY26 closing at 7,500, with no targets set for FY27.
The absence of hiring guidance comes at a time when the broader IT sector is grappling with uneven deal conversion and delayed client spending. Wipro also flagged its accelerating shift to an AI-led operating model as a key factor shaping its thinking on future workforce needs.
On the financial front, Wipro reported a sequential increase in net profit to Rs 3,522 crore and a 3% rise in revenue to Rs 24,236 crore, though growth in its core IT services business remained under pressure, with IT services revenue declining 0.3% in dollar terms for the full year. Large deal bookings, however, rose sharply by 45.4% year-on-year to $7.8 billion, pointing to a disconnect between deal wins and near-term revenue realisation.
Attrition stood at 13.8% in the March quarter, indicating a stabilising labour market after elevated churn levels in previous years. People Matters
Infosys and TCS have also announced plans to hire more freshers, with Infosys targeting over 20,000 campus hires in FY26. Whether Wipro will return to that scale in FY27 remains an open question, one the company has, for now, left unanswered.
