Infosys issues offer letters to remaining 2,000 freshers from 2022 campus hires, says employee union

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Information technology company Infosys issued offer letters to 2,000 remaining freshers from 2022 campus hires on September 3, according to the employee union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES).

On September 2, the Bengaluru-based company issued over 1,000 offer letters from the 2022 campus hires after a delay of over 2.5 years, the IT employee union said on September 2.

"Today, all the remaining campus hires around 2000 SE (system engineers) have finally received their joining dates, confirming October 21, 2024," said Harpreet Singh Saluja, President, NITES.

The said roles are for System Engineers with the date of joining being October 21, 2024. Initially offered a role at the Bengaluru-headquartered company in 2022, these software engineers were asked to take two pre-training sessions in 2024, with the last one being as recent as August 19.

Recently, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh indicated that offers given to freshers would be honoured by the company and followed with joining, although there has been some change in dates.

"Every offer that we have given, that offer will be someone who will join the company. We changed some dates but beyond that everyone will join Infosys and there is no change in that approach," Parekh had said.

However, many freshers of the 2022 batch that Moneycontrol spoke to said they haven't yet received offer letters.

Moneycontrol has reached out to Infosys for a comment and the story will be updated as and when the company responds. In July, the Bengaluru-based company had said that a small portion of the earlier hirings were pending.

The tale began when the company reached out to the candidates, who were issued offer letters in 2020, a couple of months ago. Since then, candidates complained that multiple rounds of pre-training sessions and assessments made them apprehensive about the whole process of hiring.
The salary of a System Engineer commanded Rs 3.6 lakh per annum while the position Digital of Specialist Engineer fetched Rs 6.5 lakh per annum, according to the people mentioned above.

Pune-based IT employee union NITES filed a request to the Ministry of Labour & Employment to investigate the company for ongoing “exploitation and unprofessional treatment” of 2,000 engineering graduates, who were selected for System Engineer and Digital Specialist Engineer roles during the 2022-23 recruitment drive.

Infosys had hired over 50,000 freshers in financial year 2022-23 from campuses, which plunged to nearly 11,900 college graduates in FY23-24, CEO and MD Salil Parekh, said in the company’s annual report released on June 3.

This came at a time when the company posted its first-ever full-year headcount decline in over two decades.

Also read: Infosys’ full-year headcount declines for the first time in 23 years, net addition drops by 25,994