Understanding the Indian IT Hiring Landscape
India's IT sector is one of the world's largest, employing over 5 million professionals directly. It spans IT services giants (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Tech Mahindra), global captive centres of companies like JPMorgan, Google, and Amazon, Indian product companies (Freshworks, Zoho, Razorpay, CRED), and startups across the spectrum. Each segment expects different things on a resume.
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IT Services vs Product Companies
IT Services (TCS, Infosys, etc.): Hiring at enormous scale. Screening is largely automated. CGPA thresholds, aptitude test scores, ATS keyword matching. Your resume should be clean, keyword-rich, and clearly formatted. Include CGPA if above 7.0. List all relevant technologies. Include any client-facing experience or process improvements.
Product Companies (Zoho, Freshworks, etc.): Smaller, more selective hiring. They look for technical depth, problem-solving ability, product instinct. Lead with impact. What you built. What metrics moved. What technical decisions you made. Projects with real-world deployment carry serious weight here. A friend with a Tier-2 college background and a CGPA of 6.4 cracked Razorpay because his portfolio had a deployed ML-powered URL shortener with 800 monthly users. The CGPA never came up in the interview.
Technical Skills Section for IT Resumes
Indian IT recruiters scan this section intensively. Organise it clearly:
- Languages: Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, C#, Go
- Frameworks: Spring Boot, Django, React, Angular, Node.js, .NET
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis
- Cloud and DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git
- Testing: Selenium, JUnit, Postman, JMeter (for QA roles)
