Placement News

In what is touted to be the first international placement in the 82-year history of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, an M.Tech student(24) of the institute has received an offer of $100,000 (Rs 62.7 lakh) from Google. Moreover, it is the highest salary offered to any ISI student till date. Last year's highest offer was Rs.28 lakh from Goldman Sachs.

Two B.Tech students of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, have bagged job offers of Rs 60 lakh p.a. from Facebook , while another student has been chosen as student ambassador of Google. Last year, a BTech final student at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad was hired by Facebook for a package of Rs 1.33 crore p.a.

Though Facebook didn't came to India for campus recruitment this year, it has offered seven PPO, 4 of them non-IIT students, with a package of $100,000. Notably, the company had rejected IIIT-H's invitation to participate in campus recruitment last year, but 3 out of the 4 non-IITians are from IIIT-H. The rest are from NIT-T, IIT-B, IIT-M, and IIT-R.

As per a top official, twelve students at IIT Kanpur have bagged a package of Rs 1 crore or more. Reportedly, Oracle has offered a package of Rs 1.3 crore while Google, LinkedIn, and Tower Research offered Rs 1 crore. The official dismissed the report that the three students being given Rs 1.3 crore per annum have refused the offer.

IIT Kharagpur has set a record of getting maximum number of students placed in any IIT in one phase, with 1,010 students securing jobs in the first round of placements that ended in December. 195 organisations visited the campus, with the highest package offered being Rs.77 lakh. At IIT Mumbai, there were 900 offers while IIT Delhi got 750 offers.