Business Line, India, Reports that Cognizant is the Top Recruiter at IITs Over the Last Three Years

“For the third year in a row, Cognizant has hired over 200 students from various IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), in the 2016 batch,” writes Business Line. “Cognizant has been the top recruiter over the last three years.”

According to Sriram Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Cognizant, the company is one of the ‘most aggressive’ hirers from IITs.

For the 2016 batch, the company hired from all key IITs, including Bombay, Kanpur, Madras, Roorkee, Delhi, Kharagpur, BHU and others, across disciplines.

IIT recruits have contributed a great deal towards enhancing the company’s digital capabilities to help clients make the fundamental, technology-enabled changes across all aspects of the organization — business, operations and systems — to compete and win in today’s new technology- and data-intensive world. Be it the Global Technology Office that identifies emerging technologies to create real business value, or Cognizant Digital Business that helps clients reshape their products, business models, and customer and employee experiences, talent from institutions such as the IITs is key to our ability to develop innovative products and services for long-term growth opportunities, he further said.

Talent from premier technology schools has helped spearhead the company’s entry into SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) and Internet of Things.

For example, they are working to realize the potential of developing technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and to incubate new IP-based offerings, he said.

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