IIT Patna Placements 2021: 223 Job offers made amid COVID-19 crisis

IIT Patna students received 223 job offers, improving from last year’s 202. The number of offers in this session is the highest, an IIT Patna statement informed.

IIT Patna Placement 2021: The Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna) 2020-21 concluded its annual placement drive with some overwhelming offers.  According to the official data shared by the institute, despite the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, IIT Patna students received 223 job offers, improving from last year’s 202. The number of offers in this session is the highest, an IIT Patna statement informed. Talking about the internship season, the IIT Patna statement added, is still ongoing and the numbers are expected to rise further.

IIT Patna, the official statement revealed that IIT Patna Placement Drive 2021 witnessed more than 50 new recruiters for the current ongoing placement session from various domains including consulting, analytics, e-Commerce, IT and software. The highest package offered this year is Rs 54.57 lakh per annum and Rs 52.50 lakh per annum for BTech and MTech students respectively.  This year, the recruitment drive also witnessed an increase in diversity hiring with many companies adopting diversity hiring processes for female and physically disabled candidates. The diversity hiring was conducted by companies such as Salesforce, Nvidia and Intuit.

Students of the information technology (IT) sector got the maximum number of placements followed by the core sector, the IIT statement said. Offers were made mainly in the areas of software engineering, technology consulting, analytics, research and development, graduate engineering trainee, data engineering, and associate engineering.

My interns also got permanent job offers from the recruiters. A 45% rise is seen in internship offers, or pre-placement offers (PPOs), this year. 83 BTech students have received internship offers on-campus as compared to 57 at the end of the previous season, an increase of 45 per cent. Recruiters for internships included DE Shaw, Codenation, Google India, Commvault, Goldman Sachs, Intel, iRage Capital, Newzera, Samsung Bangalore and Media.net.

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