New Delhi, April 14 -- The first signs of cracks are appearing in campus hirings this year, with companies changing recruitment plans due to artificial intelligence and the West Asia war, prompting colleges to caution newly recruited students of delayed onboarding and bringing back memories of pandemic-era job uncertainty.

Software testing platform BrowserStack has rescinded offers to engineering students from the batch of 2026. The concerns percolate to the next batch, too, Companies are revising their internship terms for students from the batch of 2027 at India's leading B-schools and engineering colleges.

These worrying signals come as the job market starts to feel the pressure of both AI and geopolitical conflicts, with companies s...