IIT Kharagpur Placement 2017-2018

Kolkata: The placement season at IIT-Kharagpur has started on a robust note with more than 300 students bagging jobs on the first two days.

Apple Inc. made its debut on the Kharagpur campus on Friday and picked five students for its Bengaluru office.

UK-based Halma plc, a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard detection, Dubai-based Dunia Finance and Mercari Japan Ltd, which specialises in dealing with industrial machinery, were also among the first-time visitors, an IIT-KGP statement said today.

The first day of the recruitment season had 29 companies visiting the campus, including Flipkart, HSBC, American Express, IBM Research, JP Morgan, Schlumberger, Airbus, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Microsoft, ITC and UBER.

A total of 188 students got jobs, 22 of which were overseas postings.

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On the second day, LG Korea, Konica Minolta, Ola, Deloitte, Walmart, Adobe and Bajaj made offers to the students. Eight out of 147 students picked on the second day got overseas postings.

The chairman of Career Development Centre at the institute, Debasis Deb, said, "Data Analytics and software are the two booming sectors this year... So far, we are extremely happy with the response that our students have received this recruitment season," he said.

The centre has taken innovative measures to strengthen relationships between the institute and the industrial sector, Deb said.

"The centre has been exploring avenues to engage with the industrial sector beyond recruitment. The students can gain experience from internships and learn about the importance of core engineering sectors at open houses and workshops," he added.

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IIT Bombay Placement 20017-2018

The first phase of IIT Bombay student placement was held from the 1st to 18th December this year. Going by the statistics this year’s placement was grand in every way with a total of 1023 selections as compared to last year’s 1007 selections. 100 PPOs were offered this year which were significantly higher than than last year’s 58 PPOs. Even the annual salary packages offered this year were higher than the ones offered last time around. 

Over 150 final year students were offered jobs on the first day of placements which itself was indicative of a better placement season. The number of companies visiting Day 1 of the first phase increased from 29 to 34. The highest number of offers were made by Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, IBM, Microsoft, BCG, Cairn, Mckinsey Knowledge Centre and Tata Steel. International offers were made by NEC Japan, Microsoft, Optiver, Rubrik and Uber. Other companies that visited the campus were Apple, Morgan Stanley, Strategy&,Schlumberger, Texas Instruments Inc, Deutsche Bank, Procter & Gamble, Millennium and the ITC Group. PSUs like BPCL and ISRO also participated in the placement season.

Microsoft’s annual package of Rs. 1.39 crore turned out to be the highest for the placement season. App-based taxi aggregator Uber came a close second with an offer of 99.87 lakh a year. The first phase of attended by more than 250 companies. The year also saw participation by 15 Japanese firms which included Sony, TEX E.G., Murata and Toyo Engineering.

Most of the students that have been placed in the 1st phase were satisfied with the job that they have landed. Several companies have confirmed their participation in the 2nd phase of the placement process. The overall placements are expected to be better than the previous year.

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Placement At IIT Delhi 2017- 2018

NEW DELHI:  It's the placement season and  as usual students at IITs are creating waves. IIT Delhi has begun it's first phase of placements which are expected to be concluded by December 15, 2017. The placements would then resume in January 2018 for the next phase. In the preliminary round, as reported by Hindustan Times, Microsoft has offered 1.4 Crore to one of the students in the placement session held on Friday. So far, says the report, multiple students have been made crore plus offers.

 IIT Delhi placement office which refused to comment on the package being offered to students citing that historically the placement office has never officially announced package details offered to students.


So far, as per unofficial sources, more than 15 companies had participated in the placement session on the first day which also included Microsoft. The second day saw participation from companies like NVIDIA, American Express, Oracle India, are interviewing students.

Earlier reported that Microsoft would be visiting IIT campuses this year for recruitment and may offer close to Rs. 1.39 crore package for jobs at its Redmond headquarters. Uber Technologies would also emerge as one of the big players offering close to Rs. 99.87 lakh package. 

Compared to last year's placement season, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has witnessed an increase of 10 per cent in the number of offers to students this year so far, the engineering and technology institute said on Wednesday. this placement season also recorded substantial increase in the Post Graduate students' placements in comparison with last year. This year, the PG placement offers saw a jump of 17 per cent, reported IANS.


Till the 10th day of the ongoing placement process, the institute registered a 10 per cent rise in the overall jobs offered to students across streams and officials associated with the exercise believe the overall percentage will improve further in coming days.

The IIT Delhi placement activities began on December 2 and the first phase of this year's recruitment exercise will end on December 15. The second phase will begin on January next year, reported IANS.

"While the overall placements have been better than last year, recruitment trends of PG students is very encouraging for the future of engineering research in the country," I.N. Kar, Professor-in-charge of Training and Placement at IIT Delhi, said in a statement.

"I am hopeful that the overall percentage increase in the recruitment of both UG (Under Graduate) and PG students will improve further," he added.

In the preliminary round, as reported by Hindustan Times, Microsoft has offered 1.4 Crore to one of the students in the placement session. So far, says the report, multiple students have been made crore plus offers.

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