Cognizant to hire 20,000 freshers in 2025

US-based IT services firm Cognizant Technology Solutions has announced that it plans to hire 20,000 freshers in 2025. The firm ended Q1 with around 336,300 employees, most of them in India. Its headcount dropped by 500 sequentially and by 8,300 y-o-y.

The firm’s attrition rose by 2.7 percentage points to 15.8% on a trailing twelve-month basis. Utilisation fell by 3 percentage points to 85%.