IIT Guwahati placements 2021: Campus jobs witness 8% drop

The average salary for BTech and BDes students has gone up to Rs 21.41 lakhs per annum. Read to know more.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) has witnessed an overall decline of 8% in campus recruitment this year due to COVID. The total number of students placed in 2020-21 is 686 out of 1,200 registered students which accounts for 57.16%. The corresponding figure for 2019-2020 was 692 out of 1,060 or 65.28%. However, this year more students from the MA programme got placed compared to last year.

The average salary for BTech and BDes students has gone up to Rs 21.41 lakhs per annum, an increase by around Rs 79,000 if compared to the previous year. In MTech and MDes, the hike in salary has been even more encouraging, with a growth of about Rs 1.70 lakh, if compared to the 2019-20 placement season.

In the 2019-20 placement year, the placement records for BTech/BDes and MTech/M.Des were 87.52% and 51.84 respectively.

The biggest recruiters this year included Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Oracle, American Express, DE Shaw, Enphase, Nutanix, Thought sport, Chalo, Razorpay, Qure.ai, Groww, Walmart, Adobe, Goldman Sachs and IBM. “We also witnessed an increase in recruitment from several prominent startups such as Ally.io, Gainsight, Harness,” said Dr Abhishek Kumar, head of the IIT-G Center for Career Development. The placement drive at IIT-G was conducted in the virtual mode due to the ongoing pandemic. A total of 140 companies from various sectors participated in the IIT-G placement process.

Kumar said that because of the COVID pandemic, there have been different kinds of job profiles in demand. But many of the sectors are giving ‘work from home’ based assignments. “The increased popularity of online tools can be collective reasons for an increase in salary packages,” he added.

“Students are placed in various profiles such as IT/software, finance, analyst, core engineering as well as design. Further, two PSUs have hired students this year. The maximum offers were made from the IT/software sector and the highest package offered is Rs 70 lakh per annum. While students from the computer science and engineering branch got the highest number of offers, it was followed by electronics and communication engineering, mathematics and computing, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

Moreover, 260 students got internship offers. The maximum stipend for the internship has been recorded at Rs 2 lakh per annum.

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