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IIT Madras placements began on a high note with 19 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Airbus and McKinsey, making 85 offers (six international) in the first session of day one.
All the top three global consulting majors McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Co recruited on the campus and accounted for 13 offers in the first session, says a press release from IIT Madras.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) have already recruited four and three candidates respectively.
Microsoft gave the highest number of offers – 25 for three profiles. The other recruiters with large selections were Goldman Sachs (7) and Apple (8).
In the second slot, 23 companies with 48 profiles are scheduled to participate. These companies include Airbus, Shell, JP Morgan, Star India, Intel, Qualcomm and General Electric, the release said.
Manu Santhanam, Advisor, Training and Placement, IIT Madras, said that the number of finance / analytics offers has been excellent in the first slot with 29 offers being made by such firms. With the high profile recruiters in the next slot, 'we hope to improve on our day 1 numbers as compared to the last year.'
This year, over 1,300 students are registered for placement across different streams of study. There are more than 490 profiles from nearly 326 companies that are planning to visit campus in the first phase of placements that lasts until December 8.
Alekhya Reddy from Computer Science and Engineering Department, who got an international offer, said, it was an exhilarating experience of attending interviews of software giants, answering back-to-back nerve-wracking coding questions. “I am experiencing a sense of satisfaction that all my hard work has paid off on getting selected for Microsoft, Redmond Campus in the US”
Advaith Sridhar from Electrical Engineering Department, who got placed in Flipkart, said, “Placements has been a whirlwind process for me. Five months of work culminating in one day can be intensely stressful but the placement arrangements smoothened the way for us (students). ”
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