IIM Ahmedabad Summer Placements – PGP (2013-15 batch)
Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has completed summer placements for its 2013-15 batch of Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management. The placement process was conducted through three cohort-based clusters (each cohort has a group of firms offering similar profiles) on November 8, November 12 and November 16. Here are details.
Number of offers and participating companies: A total of 110 firms offered summer internships to the PGP students.
Top Recruiters: The Boston Consulting Group (consulting sector) offered 14 internships, the highest number across campus. This was followed by Aditya Birla Group and GE (conglomerates) extending 10 offers. Johnson & Johnson (Consumer Goods and Services sector) and Amazon and Infibeam (IT/ITeS) made nine offers each. Goldman Sachs (global investment banks) gave seven offers.
Sector-Wise Overview
| Sector |
Recruiters |
| BFSI |
Global Investment Banks: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citibank, CW Downer & Co, Deutsche Bank, Espirito Santo, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered and UBS. Banks and financial institutions: Altisource-Ocwen, American Express, Axis Bank, Aviva, DBS, Dinodia Capital, MasterCard, Swiss RE and World Bank. Private Equity: Indus Balaji, IvyCap Ventures and Kalaari Capital (hired IIM –A students for the first-time) |
| Consulting |
Global Strategy Consulting & niche consulting firms: Accenture, Alvarez & Marshal, Arete Advisors, AT Kearney, Bain & Company, Booz & Company, CEB, EP, Feedback Ventures, Hay Group, KPMG, McKinsey & Company, Parthenon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Roland Berger, Synergy Consulting, The Boston Consulting Group. Conglomerates: Aditya Birla Group, CK Birla Group, GE, Mahindra, Reliance, RPG and TAS (students recruited for management leadership program) |
| Consumer Goods & Services |
Airtel, Alshaya, Asian Paints, Coca-Cola, Dabur, GlaxoSmithKline, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Mondelez, MSM, Nestle, Pepsi, Raymond, Star TV, Syngenta, and Wipro. Shell and Tata Steel offered sales & marketing and operations profiles; |
| Pharmaceutical |
Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cipla and Dr. Reddy’s offered roles across various functions. |
| IT/ITES |
Amazon, Cognizant, Flipkart, Google, HCL, IBM, Infibeam, Infoedge, Intel, Juniper, L&A Tech, Microsoft and Zovi. |
| Others |
SEBI and Anandwan (social and regulatory roles), start-up firms that participated in the ‘Entre Fair’ |
Tanishq Goyal, Recruitment Secretary of IIM Ahmedabad, said, “We feel extremely happy at the way our Summer Placements panned out. Our students obtained internships in diverse sectors such as BFSI, conglomerates, consulting, e-commerce, FMCG, global investment banks, NGOs, pharmaceuticals, start-ups and technology. More recruiters are increasingly looking to IIM-A for offering internships which stands testimony to the strong talent pool of the institute. We received positive feedback from our recruiters about the process and will continue to maintain the high standards we set for ourselves in the coming placement seasons as well.”
The institute will release a detailed IPRS report within 6 months.
