IIM Calcutta PGP 2015 final placement: Accenture emerges as largest recruiter

IIM Calcutta PGP 2015 final placement: Accenture emerges as largest recruiter

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Updated on Feb 24, 2015 18:06 IST

The Post Graduate Programme (PGP) batch 2013-15 at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta completed its placement process in just 2.5 days. A total of 501 offers were made to 438 students of the batch.

More than 100 offers out of the total of 501 offers were made in finance sector. About 47 offers came from the e-commerce sector. A share of 20% and 19% of the total offers were offered by consulting and sales & marketing sector respectively.

Pre-placement Offers (PPOs) were offered to 134 students. About 143 candidates with more than 22 months of work experience were placed through lateral offers.

Accenture being the largest recruiter at the institute with 18 offers being placed. Nokia Networks Finland recruited exclusively from IIM Calcutta. International offers were placed by the first time recruiters which includes Practo, Rocket Internet (APAC Internet Group and a Germany based incubator firm), Edgeverve (an Infosys company) and Nokia Networks Finland.

Placement Summary

Total strength of the batch

438

Total number of offers made

501

Lateral offers made

143

Pre-placement Offers (PPOs)

134

 

Domain-wise Overview

Domain

Companies

Finance

Avendus Capital, Allegro Advisors, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss, ICICI Securities, Goldman Sachs, Kotak IBD and other finance firms

E-Commerce

Amazon, CarTrade, GroupOn, Edgeverve (an Infosys company), Flipkart, Practo, Olacabs, Quikr, Rocket Internet (APAC Internet Group), Snapdeal, UrbanLadder, and Nokia Networks Finland  etc.

Consulting

Accenture Management Consulting, Alvarez and Marsal, AT Kearney, BMGI, Bain & Co., Deloitte, Opera Solutions (exclusive recruiter), Synergy Consultants, The Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, ZS Associates and more

Sales and Marketing

Alshaya (Middle-East based retail firm), Coca Cola, Dabur, Kelloggs, ITC, Mondelez, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, Philips, PepsiCo, etc.

Leadership and General management

Airtel, Aditya Birla Group (ABG), CK Birla Group, Essar, Lodha Group, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Tata Administrative Services (TAS), Wipro (Global 100 Program).

Read Placement reports for the batch 2013-15 of PGP of IIM Bangalore, IIM Rohtak, IIM Lucknow, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore and IIM Shillong.

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