IIM Calcutta wraps up summer placement in 2.5 days; Amazon makes 22 offers
Summer placements at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta concluded by placing over 450 students in 2.5 days. Amazon emerged as overall top recruiter with 22 offers made for leadership and Operations roles. Accenture made 17 offers, the highest offers in consulting domain, followed by The Boston Consulting Group at 15.
McKinsey & Company, BCG, Bain & Company and A.T. Kearney made 38 offers in total (highest in last three years) in Consulting domain. Other prominent recruiters were Moelis & Co, Roland Berger and Alvarez & Marsal.
Around 378 offers were made in Day 0 and Day 1 for 2014-16 batch of IIM Calcutta.
Roland Berger, Europe’s no.1 consulting firm participated for the first time in IIM Calcutta’s recruitment process. Also, number of offers made by investment banking divisions of various banks has significantly increased this year. M.H. Alshaya Co., a retailing giant in the Middle-east, took 13 students who would intern at their Kuwait and Dubai locations. A total of 25% of total offers were made in finance sector.
Star, Times Group, HT Media, Zee Media were the tops media house recruiters. EXL and Cognilytics offered jobs for analytics.
| Sectors |
Recruiters |
| FMCG sector |
Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Mondelez International, Coca Cola, Asian Paints, Proctor & Gamble, PepsiCo, L’Oreal, Johnson & Johnson, Reckitt Benckiser, Marico and Kellogg’s. |
| General Management |
Tata Administrative Services, Aditya Birla Group, CK Birla Group, Mahindra and Mahindra and Airtel |
| Finance |
Citi Bank, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered |
| Consulting |
McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, A.T. Kearney, Roland Berger, Accenture and Boston Consulting Group. |
“I am very happy to note that we had fantastic results this year. The continued faith of recruiters in our students’ quality has encouraged all of us at campus. But we at IIM Calcutta will continue to work hard and strive to achieve even better results in the future” said placement chairperson, Professor Rajiv Kumar, in a press release.
