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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has bagged more than 700 placement offers including Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) on the very first day of the placement session in 2023.
Phase-I of the placement process for the year 2023-24 of IIT Kharagpur started on December 1 with all the students participating physically. More than 61 companies offered various roles to the students mainly in the profiles of software, analytics, finance – banking, consulting and core engineering which includes the pre-placement offers from Apple, Arthur D.Little, Da Vinci, Capital One, DE Shaw, EXL Services, Glean, Google, Graviton, Microsoft, Mckinsey, Quantbox, Databricks, Square point, TSM and Palo Alto.
More than 121 profiles have been opened for the students who have received more than 19 international offers with 6 students being offered more than Rs 1 crore CTC on the first day of the placement drive. Companies are conducting the interviews in the hybrid mode with significant number of companies present physically as well.
This year, the IIT Kharagpur’s Career Development Centre for the first time is organising “Academia Industry Conclave (AIC) 2023” where the basic motto is to bridge the gap between lean period of the market and upholding the legacy of the institute.
Although the global economic situation is a big concern, the participation and euphoric energy amongst the students and the companies gave positive assurance to the entire team. Even when the current placement season is slow, IIT Kharagpur is standing tall with more than 700 offers on the first day of placement drive, is itself a manifestation of the testimony for producing quality individuals and providing excellence in education, an institute statement said.
The IITs around the country have started their placement drive, with IIT Delhi registering around 480 full-time job offers, and IIT Guwahati received 164 offers from 59 companies on the first day of its placement session.
