MS, Apple, ISRO star on day 1 as placement season begins at IIT-Madras

As many as 85 offers were made by 19 (private) companies during the first phase of the placement season, which include six international job offers. Microsoft Ltd led the pack offering jobs to 25 candidates followed by Apple (8) and Goldman Sachs (7).

Apart from these companies, the Indian Space Research Organisation and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation offered jobs to seven candidates.

“IIT Madras is the only educational institute in India which had all the top three global consulting majors McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Co. recruiting on campus - they accounted for 13 offers in Session 1.1,” said a statement from IIT Madras.

“We had premier companies in the first slot, which made a good number of offers to our candidates. The number of finance offers has been excellent in the first slot with 29 offers being made by such firms,” advisor of IIT-Madras (training and placements) professor Manu Santhanam said.

In the second slot of placements that is held between 4 pm and 11 pm, 23 companies with 48 profiles are scheduled to participate. These companies include Airbus, Shell, JP Morgan, Star India, Intel, Qualcomm and General Electric.

One of the shortlisted candidates Alekhya Reddy said, “It has been an exhilarating experience of attending interviews of software giants, answering back-to-back coding questions.”

“I am experiencing a sense of satisfaction that all my hard work has paid off upon getting selected by Microsoft, Redmond campus, USA,” she said.

More than 1,300 students are registered for placement this year from IIT Madras, 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 8th December 2018.