Campus placement began on Friday at IIT Madras with 17 companies making a total of 99 offers until the first session – Nasdaq and Rubrik participated for the first time.
The first session concluded at 2 pm and witnessed the participation of 16 companies covering 24 job profiles. Major recruiters included Apple, Microsoft, The Boston Consulting Group, Texas Instruments, Goldman Sachs, Samsung Research, IBM Research, ITC Ltd, Alvarez and Marsal, Auctus Advisors, Dalberg Advisors, Indeed India Operations, Uber, and Procter and Gamble.
Total offers
A total of 93 offers were made in first slot. ISRO had already gave six offers, thereby taking the total tally to 99, according to a release from IIT-Madras. In comparison, the number of offers at the same time last year was 71.
In the second slot starting at 4 pm, 14 companies, including Airbus Group India, EXL Services, Flipkart, Oracle, Samsung R&D, and Qualcomm, with 30 profiles, were scheduled for the recruitment. More than 1,100 students, from different streams of study, registered for placement this year.
There are over 400 profiles from nearly 280 companies that are planning to visit the campus in first phase of placements, which will go on till December 10, the release said. Manu Santhanam, Advisor, Training and Placement, IIT-Madras, said: “The placement season has begun on a promising note with a large number of offers made in the first session on first day. We hope this momentum continues into the next session and in the days to come.”