India's IT giant Infosys is once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons! In a shocking turn of events, the company has brutally laid off hundreds of fresh recruits, citing "poor internal assessment performance." But is this just another corporate excuse to cut costs and boost profit margins?
Freshers Left Jobless After Two Years of Waiting!
Waiting two years for your dream job at Infosys, only to be kicked out within months. That’s exactly what happened to over 700 freshers, according to employee unions. These graduates from the 2022 engineering batch patiently waited since 2022 before finally being onboarded in October 2024—only to be shown the door before 2025 even started!
Their crime? Failing Infosys’ internal assessments.
But many freshers claim the exam criteria were changed last minute, making it impossible to pass. If true, this would mean Infosys deliberately manipulated scores to justify mass layoffs.
The controversy doesn't stop there! Reports from NITES (Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate) claim that Infosys went full mafia mode, deploying bouncers and security guards to force employees out. Is this a corporate office or a gangster hideout?
Infosys’ silence on these allegations only makes things more suspicious. Why does a tech company need security muscle to fire fresh graduates? What are they hiding?
Is Pune Next? Fear Looms Over Hinjawadi IT Hub
With thousands of Infosys employees working in Pune, particularly in the Hinjawadi IT Park, concerns are rising: Will Infosys’ Pune campus face the same mass layoffs?
Tech professionals in Pune are already worried as hiring across major IT firms—TCS, Wipro, Cognizant, and Infosys—has slowed down drastically. If Infosys follows the same pattern, many young professionals in Pune could face job insecurity and layoffs.
According to industry insiders, Pune has one of Infosys' largest office spaces, and any cost-cutting measures will likely hit this region hard. If layoffs become widespread, it could negatively impact the city’s booming IT sector, causing a ripple effect across other companies.
With thousands of freshers and mid-level employees in Pune’s IT belt, the fear of layoffs is growing rapidly. Will Infosys Pune employees be the next to go? Or is the worst already underway?
Infosys maintains that these assessments are standard practice—fail three times, and you’re out. But why are so many freshers failing now? Could this be a cost-cutting strategy disguised as "performance evaluation"?
With IT demand slowing down and hiring freezes everywhere, is Infosys just shrinking its workforce under a convenient pretext?
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The biggest fear now? Other IT companies in Pune could follow Infosys’ lead, using assessments to silently eliminate freshers without legal consequences.
If mass layoffs continue, Pune’s IT landscape could see a significant dip in employment opportunities, affecting not just freshers but experienced professionals as well.