IIT placement 2014: IIT Bombay students get Rs 30 lakh-plus job offers

Just after two students of Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur got Rs 1.20 cr package
during the ongoing placement drive, its IIT
Bombay's chance to shine. On the day 3 of IIT
placements 5 boys of IIT Bombay got a salary
offer of 5 million yen (around Rs 30 lakh). This
was amongst the highest international offers
from MEC Japan that offered jobs to five
students.Around 400 offers were made by the
domestic companies including Eaton, Intel,
Morgan Stanley tech division, Ernst & Young
and Cadbury all were accepted.
As per the management the placements are
going better than last year. This year saw the
highest international offer coming from Epic, a
healthcare software firm which offered jobs to
18 graduates from IIT-Bombay, 20 from IIT-
Kanpur and 12 students from IIT-Kharagpur.
At an average,17 Lakhs was offered by known
software firm like Samsung India and Xerox.
Financial companies like merican Express,
Nomura, Axis Securities and Capital One picked
up several students from the Powai campus
and the average annual salary stood at Rs12.5
lakh.
At IIT-Kharagpur, Flipkart made 26 offers, the
highest across any IIT. Apart from others,
American Express, Citi Corp Services, Housing,
VMWare and Nomura also offered good
placements to students across IIT.
This year, IIT-M decided to hold placements on
the first two days in multiple sessions. Few
companies held the sessions starting at
midnight till 6 am to match the US time zones.
Till now packages have gone as soaring as
$2,10,000 per annum for international offers
and Rs 48,68,000 per annum for domestic
offers at IIT-Madras.

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Singer KK and Irish band Frantic Jack rock the stage at IIT Delhi's cultural fest

The first day of IIT Delhi's
cultural fest, Rendezvous, started on a slightly
dull note, but the energy levels picked up
when Irish band Frantic Jack took the stage
and started off the concert with their hit
number, Hold On.
Niel Kakkar, a second year student of IIT-D,
said, "I've never heard about Frantic Jack, but
now that they are here, I think they are
pretty amazing and cool. Their music is really
good." Adding to this, Mayank Jain, a third
year student of the college, said "It's always
better when bands perform their own songs.
The college bands have been performing
songs by popular bands and that was really
dull." As the IIT students appreciated the
little-known Irish band, the much hyped
annual fest had its usual number of fans in
attendance. An excited Bhumika Batra, a
student of Netaji Subhas Institute of
Technology, told us, "This is so awesome.
Rendezvous is always great."
Of KK, fire dancers and HINDI rock:
Rendezvous' Spectrum Night on day 2 saw
Hindi alternative rock band, The Local Train,
opening for B-Town singer KK. Fire dancer
Ana Sofia was up next, as she danced and
juggled to bass-dominant tracks,
synchronizing the flaming props to the beats.
But the much-awaited performance everyone
was anticipating was KK's gig, and he arrived
just before the audience ran out of patience.
A regular performer at IIT Delhi, KK spoke
about how he had first performed at IIT as a
student and won the competition. A quick
throwback to the good ol' college days was
followed by an over the top performance by
the singer as he made the IIT-ians swoon to
hit singles like O Meri Jaan, Tu Hi Meri Shab
Hai, Khuda Jaane Kyun and Zara Si Dil Mein.
DRONE TOH BANTA HAI: Drones are now the
'in' thing, it seems. Spotted at almost every
event nowadays, how could it not be present
at the technological hub of the capital? The
drone at KK's concert definitely upped the
energy level as it covered the entire arena,
keeping the excitement levels of the crowd
high.

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