New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- The country's 1.5 million engineering graduates might find it tougher to land a job at the largest IT services companies, as employee additions might not be in proportion with revenue growth due to the rise in automation tools.

Simply put, if an IT services company added 30 employees for every $100, about Rs.9,000, in new business every year, it might add fewer employees for the same amount of incremental revenue going ahead because of AI-led productivity.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is primarily eating into coding, customer support, and application maintenance roles.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and HCL Technologies Ltd have highlighted the non-linearity of revenue an...