Infosys fires hordes of trainees, says they failed to clear internal assessment

Infosys on Friday terminated around 700 trainees it had hired from campuses two-and-a-half years ago but onboarded last October, terming that they failed to clear an internal assessment programme, according to several affected people and an organisation that works with IT employees.Infosys, meanwhile, said clearing the internal assessment for continued employment is a condition it puts down on the contract when hiring freshers and a practice it has been following for two decades. The Bengaluru-based company, India’s second largest IT services…