IIT Kharagpur Placement 2020: 1,000 offers made until Day 8

More than 200 companies are participating in the first phase of the recruitment drive, mainly 25 per cent -27 per cent core companies, 65 per cent software, and 10 per cent consulting.

IIT Kharagpur Placement 2020: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur students secured more than 1,000 offers at the end of the eighth day of the first phase of its annual placement drive. Owing to the coronavirus crisis in the country, the IIT Kharagpur Placements 2020 was conducted in a virtual mode. 

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, American Express, Sony Japan, EXL Service, Oracle, Honeywell, TSMC, Rakuten, Cohesity, Amazon, Airbus, PwC, L&T, Wipro and Tata Steel, among others, participated in the placement drive and have made placement offers. Students were offered jobs in various sectors including software, hardware, analytics, consulting, core engineering, education, healthcare, banking and finance.

More than 200 companies are participating in the first phase of the recruitment drive, mainly 25 per cent -27 per cent core companies, 65 per cent software, and 10 per cent consulting. The students also bagged 30 international job offers from countries such as Japan and Taiwan, the spokesman said.

"The company mix in the first phase is fairly distributed and the students got their placements as per their domain choice, though software, data, and analytics took the major share of it. The performance is even reflected in the average salary which stands at Rs 19 LPA despite the odds," a spokesperson of the IIT Kharagpur said.

"On the closing of Day 1, we had received 400 plus offers which became 900 on the fifth day and crossed 1000 by Day 8," chairman, Career Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur Prof A Rajakumar said.

The first phase of placements at the institute will continue till December 11, with the next phase set to resume from the second week of January 2021.

"Though pandemic restricted some of the companies to offer more hiring numbers/profiles, IIT KGP achieved significant performance and reassured its legacy," Rajakumar said.

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