2,500 IT freshers to be given pink slips for failing screening test: Report

Indian IT companies may lay off about 2,500 recent recruits for failing the internal assessment tests, a report by Mint said. The layoffs will be based on screening tests that generally take place within a year of a recruit’s joining to assess whether they will match the client’s needs.

Experts quoted in the report added that the layoffs might also be due to overhiring during the pandemic.

“We expect around 2,500-plus freshers to be removed from these companies due to poor performance, post-training,” Anshuman Das, chief executive and co-founder of Careernet, a talent solutions provider, told Mint.

According to Das, around 1 per cent of the total hires fail to clear the screening tests every year.