For the first time in almost six months after it was acquired by Tech Mahindra, Satyam Computer Services (now rebranded as Mahindra Satyam) will hire 130 people from outside the company.

"We got an approval for external hiring on October 4. These are speciality skills, which are not there in the virtual pool and are not trainable internally. These junior- and middle-level hirings will largely be from India. Besides, we will be hiring one or two senior level people from the market for select areas," the company's chief people and marketing officer, Hari Thalapalli, told Business Standard.

He, however, did not disclose the roles to be assigned to these seniors it plans to hire. The company currently has around 34,000 staffers globally, and is working towards shaking off the bad image its disgraced founder, Ramalinga Raju, had left it with.

Mahindra Satyam lost 200-250 client companies after the confession by founder Ramalinga Raju that he had cooked the company's books for several years. Today, the company has 400 customers globally.

"We have so far won 30 new logos, most of them single-digit million dollar contracts, and 15 new orders in Oracle implementation in 15 weeks. There is a complete strategy that has been laid out to regain lost contracts and we are working towards it," Thalapalli said.

On the cultural side and people-related issues, he said the company had recently initiated employee connect programmes, including one in which the chief executive officer, C P Gurnani, walks across different floors and talks to people and listens to their issues.