Mumbai: Eighty-five percent of about 12,000 State Bank of India freshers set to join the country's largest lender SBI in FY25 are engineering graduates, its chairman Dinesh Khara has said. The bank is in the process of onboarding up to 12,000 After training the over 3,000 POs and over 8,000 associates with some banking knowledge, they will be freshers in the roles of channelized into various business roles probationary officers and associates in FY25, and there is no bias towards onboarding engineers in the ranks, Khara said, stressing that this is not by design.&nbsp; After training the over 3,000 POs and over 8,000 associates with some banking knowledge, they will be channelised into various business roles.

It can be noted that this comes at a time when the banking sector is increasing its
dependency on technology as it looks for newer ways of enthralling the customer

SBI's 85% hires to be engineering graduates in FY25