Why Wipro prefers to hire US freshers

BENGALURU: The employee cost of fresh campus recruits in the United States is about the same as IT professionals sent on work visas from India, WiproNSE 0.53 % said.

They are also faster to deploy and require shorter training time than tech workers from India, said the software services exporter major. The IT services firm is adding more employees locally in the US and Europe, two key global markets, and also deploying them faster in projects.

Wipro recruited more than 6,000 fresh graduates globally during the April-June quarter, with localisation in the US, its biggest market, at 65.4%.