"Tech titans begin campus visits in September and conduct tests and interviews for students who have completed their fifth semester. They are also adopting automation in a big way and reskilling their employees so as to increase the net productivity per employee," the Nasscom chief said. The industry could recruit, at best, 2 lakh engineers from campuses, the same as last year. Chandrashekhar said, "Domain specialization and greater need for soft skills have become the new patterns that we are witnessing throughout the sector. Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka recently announced that the company would focus on a zero-bench strategy to increase utilization levels.

Source: Economic Times July 21, 2016 19:02 UTC