Software firm Happiest Minds to hire 300 techies in each of next three qtrs

Bengaluru-based software firm Happiest Minds Technologies, which has been facing rising attrition levels of late, is planning to hire 300 techies in each of the next three quarters, its top management has said.

The Ashok Soota-promoted 11-year-old company had a high attrition of 14.7 per cent in the June quarter when its total headcount stood at 3,538, after net-adding 310 in the quarter to June.

Against this, market leader TCS had the lowest attrition of 8.6 per cent, (up from 7.2 per cent in March), followed by Infosys at 13.9 per cent (was up from 10.9 per cent in March); Wipro (15.5 per cent in June, up from 12 per cent in March), and the US-based Cognizant, which has two-thirds of its employees here, had 31 per cent for the June quarter.