GUWAHATI: Students of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has has bagged great placement offers yet again. On the opening day itself, students managed to grab packages worth Rs 2.4 Cr from companies recruiting from the institution.
The placements of the 2022-23 academic session stated on December 1, with recruiters from various top brands from different sectors visiting the campus. According to reports, on the first day itself 46 companies held their recruitment drive on the first day. They placed a total of 168 offers for different position across their companies.
The highest among them has been mentioned to be a whooping Rs 2.4 Cr. Also, a total of 1269 students from the institution have registered for placements this year. Apart from the Rs 2.4 Cr worth package for international posting, the highest domestic placement in the campus was Rs 1.1 Cr.
Some of the job profiles for which these students were recruited include Software Development, Data Science, Quant, Core engineer, UX Designer, VLSI, Vehicle Engineering, Analyst and Product Designer. While the companies Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Google, Uber, Qualcomm, C-DOT, Enphase Energy, Oracle, Nutanix, Thoughtspot MTS-2, Squarepoint SDE or Quant, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Bajaj, Rippling, Tibra, Cohesity and Sprinklr took part in on the first day.
Reports also mention that 218 pre-placement offers were given to students of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. This is a new record for the institution itself which has been known to generate some of India's biggest placement records. This is the first phase of placements in the premier engineering institution of the country, which is expected to continue of fifteen days.
This placement drive gets a special significance as some of the usual top recruiters from the college are not hiring this year. These include Meta ( parent company of Facebook) and Amazon.
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