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I will tell you how placements work. Let there be a company and lets name it "Orange". Your PC (Placement Coordinator) approaches this company and invites them for a placement drive at your college. Orange will then confirm by giving their shortlisting criteria. Now in reality, mostly this criteria contains the following:
1. Student must have no back/cleared backs at the time of interview.
2. Student must have more the 80% aggregate in all semesters at the time of interview.
3. Student must be well read about all the company profile.
4. Student must possess good logical and analytical abilities. And so on. Now, your placement coordinator can negotiate with the company for following:
1. The student will have no more than one back in core subjects that he/she will clear by the time of joining.
2. Instead of the 80% criteria, the shortlist will contain the names of the top 20 unplaced students of the batch based on our one placement policy. All resumes will be sent to you for approval. And so on. Based on how much Orange trusts your PC and what is the image/ranking of your college in the market, the company will agree to some of these negotiations and will present some of its own. Most of the time, the companies do not prefer students with uncleared backs, so I would advise you to avoid getting any or clear all before interviews. After this shortlist, Orange will take Written tests (Core subject/Logical Reasoning/Communication Skills/Psychometric Test) based on its policies followed by interviews (Technical and HR). Based on all of this you get a job.

According to the National Institute Ranking Framework, NIT-Warangal ranks 34th among the engineering colleges in India. For Computer Science Engineering, last time (2016-17) out of 108 students who applied to placements from CSE department, 107 students were placed meaning 90.1 percent placement for CSE which is quite an impressive number. For CSE, the minimum salary offered was 3.3 LPA. The average salary was 13.5 LPA and the maximum salary was 20 LPA. All these figures suggest pretty good placements at NIT-Warangal. Some of the companies which came for placements were Microsoft, D. E. Shaw, Adobe, Direct, Tower Research Capital, Cisco, IBM and some investment banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc. C.

Many job opportunities are there for Chemical Engineers in pharma companies. The placements at National Institute of Technology, Surathkal of Chemical are really good. The placement ratio is almost 90%. Many multinational IT companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. , visit the campus every year and take students from here. The minimum package offered for this branch is around 4-5 LPA, average package is around 7-9 LPA and the highest is 15 LPA. Companies like Ranbaxy, Sun Pharma, Oracle, Birla Cellulose, Volvo, Reliance Industries, Tata Advanced Materials, Aditya Birla Group, Siemens, Kirloskar, Godrej, Diesel Logistics limited, Lodha Group, Brenntag, Glenmark, Torrent Pharma, Asian Paints, etc. , recruit students from here. All the credit goes to the training and placement cell department of NIT, Surathkal. So, it is really good to do Chemical Engineering from a reputed institute or university if someone is really interested in this and is in the search better packages and further studies. In short, the placements are good enough. Companies like Microsoft, SanDisk, Samsung, Reliance and other renowned companies visit the campus. After 3rd year, almost every student gets an internship through on-campus internships.

Some excellent dedication seen by TPO and assistance given by Placements Committee in bringing top companies in designing MOU for 3-years consecutively. Total Intake:- 120 Civil Engineering)
Placements Scenarios:-
Median Package:- 6 LPA
Average package:- 5 LPA ( Civil Only)
the highest package:- 10 LPA
Percentage placed:- 90%
Star Recruiters:- l&T, Jaypee Cement, ACC, Vedanta, Runwal Builders, Mayfair Builders and Developers, Volvo, reliance, tata motors, Tata Advanced Materials, Aditya Birla Group, siemens, Philips, Kirloskar, Ingersoll Rand Thermax, Godrej and Boyce, Uhde India, Line Group, Diesel Logistics limited, voltas, Thyssen group, Exxon Mobil, Tata Steel, NALCO and many more big names.

National Importance with the highest rating, recognition as a QIP Center, initiation and operationalization of MoUs with several national and international institutions. As Closing rank for CSE branch in NIT Surathkal is 5173 So students are really good in their studies. Generally Placement is taking place for 4th Year student who are eligible for Placement test and then company came to campus and they makes pre-placement talk, conducts tests and interviews and selects the candidates. According to previous year data for placement in CSE branch there is 98.90% placement of student in 2016 with average salary of Rs. 8.27 Lacs per annum and the highest of Rs. 25 Lacs per annum and minimum salary of Rs. 4 Lacs per annum. This College has 90.67 % Placement overall.

Some excellent dedication is been seen by TPO and Assistance given by Placements Committed in bringing top companies in designing MOU for 3 years consecutively. For ECE students, some special Networking and Mechatronics programme and competition is held to encourage more participating in Technical Development and scholarships are also awarded to meritorious students
Placements Scenarios for ECE branch-
Median Package:- 10 LPA
Average package:- 8 LPA
the highest package:- 35 LPA by Philips
Percentage placed:- 95%
Some top Recruitment companies are Vodadone, Bajaj, Havells, Samsung, Philips, Siemens, ABB, Aircel, Hutch, Essar, Thermax, larsen and Toubro, Thyseen krup, Line Group.

The date of visit is intimated to the companies in June. On the allotted day, the company visits the campus, makes pre-placement talk, conducts tests and interviews and selects the candidates. The placement percentage for EEE branch is around 92%. Few of the companies for EEE branch are as follows:
1. MU Sigma
2. Murugappa
3. SAP Lab
4. Microchip Tech
5. Seagate
6. Schneider Electric
7. Texas Instruments
8. Siemens
9. Reliance
10. Tech Mahindra
11. TCS Digital
12. SanDisk
13. Huawei Tech
14. Incture Tech
The NITs are great in infrastructure, facilities and study environment and even all the branches have great placements in reputated companies which further can help you move abroad or in some great research work. If you get NIT Surathkal, it is one of the oldest (established in 1960) NITs having nearly all branches and have great result (73 students placed among 81) in terms of placements in EEE branch (the highest package of 22 LPA and average package of 8.5 LPA).

Cons of Working in a Start Up:
-You have to do a lot of work. -You will do a lot of work, you may not be appreciated for it and still more work will be pending. -Your boss will get angry at you because he is under a lot of stress himself. Mostly, your boss will be a co-founder. -The startup may fail and you will lose your job. Having said the above things, there are a lot of benefits to working in a startup. Imagine if India was a rich country, the rupee is 10 rupees per dollar. There is no outsourcing of jobs to India. The whole MNC industry wouldn't exist. No matter how much experience you gain in the software/ outsourcing industry, one day you may lose the job. If you worked for 20 years, made a lot of money and you quit voluntarily, the only thing you will have remaining is your money. Your experience cannot help you start a business of your own and make money selling products or services. Pros of Working in a Startup:
-You will understand the value of saved up capital and money as a resource. -You will do more work, have more satisfaction, learn more and become a better person in a shorter time. -Working in a startup is like an investment into your future. You may work for 5 years in a startup, earn less than what your friends did, have a simpler life, but in the end you have more skills to make money as an entrepreneur and by that time your friends will be left with no job and no skills to make money on their own. In short: Working in a startup is a middle point between being an entrepreneur and a full time regular corporate slave.