HCL Technologies bucked the slump with its upbeat financial performance. Then why has it been reluctant about onboarding freshers?
S Anand Kumar is an angry young man. In November 2011, the 23-year-old was offered a job by HCL Technologies during campus placements, even before he earned his engineering degree. That was then. Over a year later, he is still in the dark about his joining date. The endless wait is frustrating for Anand Kumar as well as several others who passed out of engineering colleges across the country in 2012. (Around 5,000 offers were made, a number that HCL wouldn’t confirm or deny.)
(This story appears in the 03 May, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)