Indian Institute of Management Bangalore’s final placement season for the PGP Class of 2015-17 saw a total of 411 students placed, while 10 graduating students opted to pursue entrepreneurial or other opportunities.

At the final placement, students received over 450 offers across 200-plus job profiles from some 160 companies. Altogether 162 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) were extended to students before the start of the final placements based on their performance during the Summer Internship and 133 PPOs were accepted by the students.

As many as 139 offers were made by firms in varied domains like consulting, business leadership, product management, operations, category management and general management during the Lateral Placement (LP) process for students with more than 22 months of work experience.

Ganesh N Prabhu, Chairperson, Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore, said: “We experienced a qualitative improvement in the placements this year. Increased hiring by banks, consulting and consumer goods firms compensated for the firms that could not participate in our placements this year.”

Harsha Bhattad, Placement Representative, said, “In addition to the continued interest shown by traditional recruiters, we also saw over 25 per cent first-time recruiters who hired in good numbers. Further, the increased efforts put in by students resulted in them getting their preferred jobs.”

Global banks

IIM Bangalore played host to most leading global banks on the first-day of the Final Placements. Goldman Sachs made 14 offers, including PPOs. Citi Bank, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered were the other key participants. Among banks and financial firms, American Express made eight offers followed by YES Bank, ICICI Bank, Visa, and so on.

Consulting companies

In the strategy consulting domain, the Boston Consulting Group led with 20 offers (including PPOs) followed by Accenture Strategy, McKinsey & Co, Bain & Company, Deloitte and AT Kearney.

Indian conglomerates

Indian groups were led by the Aditya Birla Group, followed by Wipro Global, Bharti Airtel, Mahindra Group, Tata Administrative Services and Reliance Industries.

New recruiters

New recruiters were by Sprinklr making six offers followed by Sterlite Power, BNY Mellon, Power Finance, Vedanta and others.

Sales and Marketing

Many students opted for Sales and Marketing roles and were extended offers by major consumer goods firms led by Anheuser-Busch Inbev. Other leading recruiters in this category were Proctor & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Johnson & Johnson and Marico.

Technology

Prominent recruiters in the technology space included Samsung, Tech Mahindra, Microsoft, and WNS.

E-commerce

E-commerce players showed reduced interest compared to last year, with Amazon leading with 12 offers. Other key recruiters included Ola Cabs, Paytm, Myntra and Uber (1). Analytics recruiters included Mu Sigma (1) and Bridgei2i (1).

The healthcare sector saw offers from Dr Reddy’s, and from the real-estate sector offers were made by Nitesh Estates and Altisource Ocwen.

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