Hiring: seniors still in demand
Multiple outlets report hiring is narrowing: Silicon Valley conversations are framing an 'AI job panic' while demand for senior technology leaders in India remains robust. At the same time, TCS said it made 25,000 fresher offers for the fiscal year but cautioned future hiring will depend on demand conditions. (freemalaysiatoday.com) (m.economictimes.com) (thehansindia.com)
Tech hiring is splitting in two: entry-level hiring is tightening in parts of the industry, while companies in India are still chasing senior technology leaders with artificial intelligence experience. (freemalaysiatoday.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com) At the HumanX conference in San Francisco, attended by about 6,500 investors, founders and executives, a billboard saying “Stop hiring humans” captured the mood around artificial intelligence and jobs. Writer chief executive May Habib said Fortune 500 bosses are having a “collective panic attack” over the issue. (freemalaysiatoday.com) That anxiety is showing up in company decisions. Free Malaysia Today, citing Agence France-Presse, reported that more companies are explicitly linking layoffs to artificial intelligence even as executives urge workers to “code smarter” and focus on tasks machines cannot easily do. (freemalaysiatoday.com) In India, the hiring picture is narrower rather than uniformly weak. The Economic Times reported on April 12 that multinational companies and domestic firms are increasing searches for directors, vice-presidents and other senior technology leaders to run artificial intelligence adoption and digital transformation programs. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Ratna Gupta, a senior partner at ABC Consultants, told The Economic Times that mandates at the director level, vice-president level and above are up about 20% from the more cautious first half of fiscal year 2025. The same report said many multinational companies are considering moving global technology roles to India through global capability centers. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) Tata Consultancy Services is showing both sides of that divide. The company said it has made 25,000 fresher offers for fiscal year 2027, and chief executive K Krithivasan said any additional campus hiring will depend on how demand develops. (thehansindia.com) (hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com) That is a slower start than last year. Economic Times HR and other reports said Tata Consultancy Services hired 44,000 freshers in fiscal year 2026, making this year’s 25,000 offers a notable pullback unless demand improves later in the year. (hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com) (livemint.com) The result is a labor market that rewards experience more selectively. Companies still want people who can manage large engineering teams, move old software systems onto newer platforms and turn artificial intelligence tools into revenue, while junior hiring is being screened more tightly against client demand and automation plans. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) (freemalaysiatoday.com) For graduates and early-career workers, that means the headline is not that technology hiring has stopped. It is that companies are filling fewer broad-based entry routes while paying up for leaders who can decide where artificial intelligence actually saves time, cuts costs or wins new business. (thehansindia.com) (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
