| | | India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering
AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs
Mastufa Ahmed
Sat 4 Oct 2025
Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and IBM boss Arvind Krishna are both IIT alumni, and employers seek out IIT students. New grads are generally optimistic that attaining a degree at one of the 23 institutes is a great start to a career.
But that dream didn't come true for Kumar. Weeks before he was due to join a local startup as a software development engineer, the company revoked its job offer, citing "significant consolidation" and an "extremely challenging financial position."
The news left him reeling.
"I was prepared to begin," Kumar said. "Now I'm back to zero, just trying to stay confident," he told The Register.
Kumar's story is a familiar one across India's university campuses, where information technology students increasingly find that employers aren't interested in taking on early career workers.
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