Internet and e-commerce start-ups made a beeline to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A) to recruit top brains as part of the summer internships.

IIM-A said e-commerce recruiters such as CarDekho, Flipkart, Ola Cabs, OYO Rooms, Rocket Internet, Snapdeal and Xiaomi, besides Amazon and Microsoft from the internet and technology space, made offers to the 2017 Class of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management. At the end of the summer placement process spread over three clusters, students got offers from over 110 firms with operations across 11 sectors.

About 80 dream applications were made this year, where students got the flexibility to choose and build their careers in the sectors of their choice.

This year, 17 students opted out of the summer placement process to work on their own ventures under the mentorship of IIM-A's Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE). In the technology sector, Amazon was the largest recruiter making 18 offers to students for roles in marketing, operations, product marketing and product management.

Flipkart and Snapdeal made 10 and six offers, respectively.

The Summer Placement for 2017 batch of PGP-FABM (Post-Graduate Programme in Food & Agribusiness Management) with 46 students was completed in the first day itself with 30 companies participating for the process. Satish Deodhar, Chairperson of Placement Committee, IIM said, “Change of programme name and curriculum this year from ABM to FABM was overdue as it underlined the focus, industry and IIM-A attach to agriculture in general, and food business, in particular.

And it showed when about 11 new global food firms visited the campus this time around.”

Investment bank Goldman Sachs made 11 offers, while FMCG majors HUL and Johnson & Johnson made six offers each in the sales and marketing domain.

The Aditya Birla Group made 17 offers followed by Tata Administrative Services and Mahindra & Mahindra with eight offers each.

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