New Delhi, July 30 -- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is pressing ahead with campus hiring plans, even as it navigates the retrenchment of over 12,000 middle and senior executives. Placement executives at multiple engineering colleges said India's largest IT services company emailed last week to select graduates through its hackathon programme, and also as part of its usual hiring plans.

The outreach signals that India's biggest private employer continues to prioritize lower-cost, entry-level talent, particularly those skilled in emerging technologies, while trimming its more expensive, seasoned workforce. The move, coming at a time of broader slowdown in foreign markets and domestic business challenges, underscores TCS's cost-saving...