Engineering campus hiring may fall first time since 2009: Nasscom

CHENNAI: For the first time since 2009, campus recruitment of grads could fall across engineering colleges as companies resort to automation of entry-level coding jobs and look at optimizing their bench strength.

India churns out nearly 16 lakh graduate engineers every year, of which nearly two lakh are absorbed by the IT industry – the largest organized recruiter at the campus. The industry could recruit, at best, 2 lakh engineers from campuses, the same as last year