Tag: campus placements

MUMBAI : It has been a tepid student placements season so far at India’s engineering colleges, and a similar lull is expected in business schools, particularly in the small cities. But for some, there’s a bigger worry: without a job straight out of college, or jobs at lower salaries than expected, students who’ve borrowed lakhs of rupees to fund their expensive education might struggle to repay. While banks and non-banks—the ones who should be concerned—do not seem perturbed, faculty members Mint spoke with fear that the number of students defaulting on their loans could rise on the back of an ... Read more

Zomato is scouting for algorithm engineers at IIT campuses. High frequency trading companies are looking for statistical process control experts with high scores in quant. Consulting companies want associate product managers. And conglomerates are seeking chemical engineers for their ESG operations. Recruiters prowling the premier engineering schools at this year’s hiring season are shunning students with the regular academic profiles, instead picking to-be-engineers who have worked in complex projects. Blame AI. “If we wanted regular coders, engineers, or get impressed with presentations, we would have relied on ChatGPT,” said a partner at a leading consulting company that has hired more ... Read more

The Indian Institutes of Technology participating in their ongoing placements programme have asked recruiters to confirm there will not be any delays in the onboarding of the selected students. Some students from the placements team at IIT-Kanpur, in fact, told Mint that they have informed companies participating in the campus recruitment that if they deferred onboarding beyond a certain period they would be blacklisted. These students declined to be identified. The premier engineering colleges are concerned about a repeat of potential delays in joining dates for the selected students, as had happened to previous graduating batch given slowdowns in certain ... Read more

The first day of the annual ritual of clamouring for engineers graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology has surfaced modest hiring patterns, even based on announcements from just three of these premier institutes as of Friday evening. IIT-Bombay saw 40 companies interviewing on the first day of placements, with about 80% of regular recruiters participating. While more than 250 pre-placement offers were accepted, the engineering college expects over 350 companies to participate in this year’s placement season.  Among the recruiters at IIT-Bombay on Day 1 were Google India, Apple, Microsoft India, Procter and Gamble, Sony Japan, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, ... Read more