CAN A MECHANICAL ENGINEER GET A JOB IN IT INDUSTRY AND IS IT WORTH?

CAN A MECHANICAL ENGINEER GET A JOB IN IT INDUSTRY AND IS IT WORTH?

 

Mechanical engineering is one of the evergreen engineering disciplines among all engineering disciplines. It’s not very easy for all mechanical engineering freshers to find a high paying job.

 

India still lacks the infrastructure and the facilities to improve in the recently emerging sectors such as Automobile, Aviation. Automation and Robotics reducing the opportunities of jobs for mechanical engineering freshers to a great extent but they can find job opportunities in many different fields, one of them being jobs in IT companies.

Yes, a mechanical engineering easily can find a job in an IT company. This is because companies during recruitment offer jobs for mechanical freshers believing that every mechanical engineer is first an ‘engineer’ and therefore is perfectly capable of using their knowledge of science and mathematics to carry out the work in hand after a little training.

In order to get the job, the mechanical engineering freshers must make sure they are well prepared for the AMCAT, have brushed up their knowledge of C & C++ and have proper knowledge of the IT company they are looking for job in, to be able to face the interview.

Now that you know that being a mechanical engineering fresher you can work in an IT company, here is a list of top IT companies that are offering jobs for mechanical freshers:

 

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES: Tata Consultancy Services Limited is one of the leading IT companies in India. It is an Indian multinational information technology service, consulting and business solutions company that has its headquarter in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

The freshers are trained in different areas and put into different projects depending upon their suitability to a particular project. The engineering and industrial services(EIS) division of TCS is where a mechanical engineering fresher would rightly belong.

 

WIPRO: Wipro Limited is another IT company that offers jobs for mechanical engineering freshers.

It is an Indian Information Technology Services corporation that has its headquarter in Bengaluru, India.

 

Writing AMCAT exam is one of the ways a fresher can go for off-campus recruitment, or arrange for an interview through referral through anyone working in the company itself.

 

INFOSYS: Freshers looking for jobs in IT companies should consider looking for one in Infosys.

Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services.

It has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Infosys has big clients like Harley Toyota, who have core business in mechanical.

However, as a fresher in IT company, your job will be handling, supporting, developing, integrating IT division of such companies. Thus, making sure these clients do not face any hassles in running their IT operations. For this purpose, Infosys gives adequate training to its freshers.

 

COGNIZANT: Cognizant, a growing IT company that provides IT services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations services, is a wonderful company to start looking for IT job for freshers.

If you do your part, they will push you up. They offer a wide spectrum of benefits and development programs that rewards and equips the freshers to grow and acquire new skills.

Cognizant will give you training according to your domain, so you need not worry being a mechanical engineering fresher of not having the subject knowledge.

 

There are others companies too like Capgemini, HCL, PWC, Accenture etc.

All the best :-)