Wipro has shared its plans to reduce its target of hiring freshers in FY26. Earlier, the company had set a target of 10,000, but it now plans on hiring a total of 7,500-8,000 campus recruits by the end of the financial year.
“Our recruitment from campuses was muted. Next quarter, again, we’ll be looking at the campuses. Hiring was more project-based across the globe, and skill-based,” WIPR Chief Human Resource Officer Saurabh Govil shared, talking about the company’s recruitment numbers in Q3 FY26. By the end of said quarter, Govil revealed that the company had already hired over 5,000 freshers in FY26.
The change in the hiring target has been attributed to the company’s lower-than-expected performance in the Americas business and the soft healthcare vertical. According to management, Wipro needs to “win more” in these segments, though the company remains confident that performance will pick up in the first half of the next fiscal year, owing to a strong large-deal pipeline that typically takes longer to ramp.
On the subject of artificial intelligence (AI), Wipro remains firm that AI is not compressing pricing or deal bookings but is rather leading to more deals and decisions. The company’s year-to-date large-deal bookings have grown over 20% year-on-year, with some unnamed deals growing more than 50%.
Wipro had ended fiscal year 2024-2025 with 10,000 freshers, having set a target of 12,000. Though Wipro had set a similar target for the ongoing fiscal year, it had indeed clarified in April 2025 that it would be observing the ongoing business environment, which has been reeling under macroeconomic uncertainties.
“We don’t want a situation where we onboard people, and we don’t have channels of deployment. So we’ll keep a very close look. But that’s the plan that continuously keep growing and adding,” Govil had stated, adding “We are very cognisant that we should not do anything which is onboard people and not deploy them, which we have burnt the fingers three years ago. We are very conscious that we do it the right way.”
