Of the 112 companies visiting IIT Kharagpur, IT/ITeS firms comprised the highest share at 40%, followed by core sector at 20%, analytics 15%, e-commerce 15% and finance 10%
IIT Roorkee saw recruitments by Citi Bank, Cisco, Fractal Analytics, GE, Math Works, Mercari, OYO Rooms, Paytm, and Razorpay. IIT Kanpur had prominent recruiters like Caterpillar, Taiwan Semiconductor
Other tech and consulting majors at IITs include Google, Apple, BCG, McKinsey
The first phase of placement season at IITs, has attracted significantly higher number of recruiters compared to last year
Share of total batch being placed in the first phase of the final placement process has risen at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Varying from campus to campus, as against an average 60-70 per cent of batches being placed in the last 3-4 years, the first phase of final placements this year in December has seen over 80 per cent of the batch being placed at some of the IITs. The trend has been led by a 15-17 per cent growth in core sector profiles that have seen a healthy jump over last year, coupled with rise in research and innovation profiles, along with analytics and consulting profiles being offered in decent numbers by recruiters this year."We are yet to analyse the overall numbers, but we will be placing over 80 per cent of the batch in the first phase this year. Last year, the same was around 70 per cent. The good thing is that this has been led by the core manufacturing sector which has seen a rise in offers," said K Mohanty, head - placements at IIT Guwahati.IIT ...
Final placements see Microsoft offering Rs 1.39-cr package
IIT Roorkee saw offers jump by nearly 43% to 290 offers from 65 firms in the first two days of campus placement
Madras got nine international offers by Microsoft, Uber, Rubrik and Indeed. Isro made six offers
Last year, placements had seen Oracle and Microsoft make highest offers of $136,000 (or Rs 93 lakh at then rates) and $135,000 (Rs 92 lakh)
IITs had imposed a ban on these start-ups after they withdrew offers made to students
Against 25% of offers being made and accepted by students at IITs last year, the figure has escalated to 40%