COVID-19 Impact: IIT Madras conducts online internship drive
IIT Madras for the first time has started the internship drive online.To hold the online interviews, the IIT Madras placement and the internship student team coordinated with students through various social media platforms.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has started its first-ever internship drive online. On the first day, 20 companies made 152 offers to Undergraduate students. The interviews were conducted over video conferencing platforms. Top Indian and global companies, including Microsoft India, Google, Rubrik’s Software Development, and Jane Street’s Quantitative Researcher offered internships for the summer of 2021, IIT Madras said in a statement.
“I am happy to inform you that the online internship interviews for Day one has been quite successful. IIT Madras Internship Office conducted three student surveys and two surveys with companies who frequently recruit our students for internships and placements before arriving at this date of August 30, for day one,” Professor N.V. Ravi Kumar, Advisor (Internship), IIT Madras, said in a statement.
“We had requested companies to be flexible considering that several of our students were in remote and far-flung locations where Internet connectivity may not be as good as in urban locations. The collective efforts of internships student heads and their teams in collaboration with the companies who participated in this approach resulted in positive outcomes,” Prof Kumar added.
In order to hold the online interviews, the IIT Madras placement and the internship student team coordinated with students through various social media platforms.
As part of IIT Madras’ academic curriculum, internships are mandatory for BTech and MTech courses besides Dual Degree students.
“Internship Drive 2020, being entirely online, was very different from how I could have imagined. Despite all the issues faced, I believe my skills were judged effectively and in the best possible manner. There was a great outreach in spite of everything that could have gone wrong and I think that this internship will do wonders in shaping the path I take in the future,” Ms M Harini Saraswathy, a student placed in Jane Street, said.
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