{"id":999230,"date":"2026-03-25T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999230"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:36:54","slug":"tcs-rolls-out-lateral-hiring-months-after-infosys-goes-head-hunting-for-specialist-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/tcs-rolls-out-lateral-hiring-months-after-infosys-goes-head-hunting-for-specialist-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS rolls out lateral hiring months after Infosys goes head-hunting for specialist programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top software services exporter TCS has rolled out a lateral hiring programme targeting technology professionals with two to four years of experience, as it seeks to push an AI-led future for itself. <\/p>\n<p>A recent mail to employees in this regard mentioned an annual package of up to \u20b99 lakh, and struck a note of urgency as the company has offered a bonus of \u20b950,000 for those joining within 30 days of selection. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative follows a similar off-campus recruitment programme by Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys. The drive, with unprecedented salary offers, targeted graduates with one-year of experience and solid skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top software services exporter TCS has rolled out a lateral hiring programme targeting technology professionals with two to four years of experience, as it seeks to push an AI-led future for itself. A recent mail to employees in this regard mentioned an annual package of up to \u20b99 lakh, and struck a note of urgency as the company has offered a bonus of \u20b950,000 for those joining within 30 days of selection. The initiative follows a similar off-campus recruitment programme by Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys. The drive, with unprecedented salary offers, targeted graduates with one-year of experience and solid skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}