Guwahati: As many as 686 students of IIT-Guwahati were successfully placed in various companies through a virtual campus placement drive for the academic year 2020-21.
The virtual recruitment process saw 140 companies taking part, including Microsoft, Walmart, Adobe, and many more.
A total of 444 students out of 584 students from B.Tech and B.Des earned job offers during the placement drive, an official statement said on Thursday.
“Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm, Oracle, American Express, DE Shaw, Enphase, Nutanix, Walmart, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, and IBM recruited the most number of students. While the institute also saw increased recruitment from several prominent start-ups such as Ally.io, Gainsight, Harness, Thought sport, Chalo, Razorpay, Qure.ai, and Groww,” the statement from IIT-Guwahati was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The employers offered job profiles like IT/Software, Finance, Analyst, Core Engineering, and Design. The IIT-Guwahati students were even placed in two Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) this academic year.
However, the IT/Software sector dished out maximum offers, where the highest salary offered was ₹70 Lakh per annum.
According to the statement, IIT-Guwahati has seen an increase in the pay packages offered to students during the academic year of 2020-21, despite the pandemic challenges. The average salary offered to B.Tech and B.Des students jumped to ₹21.41 Lakh Per Annum (LPA) during 2020-21 compared to ₹20.62 LPA in the previous year.
M.Tech and M.Des students were offered up to ₹17.92 LPA compared to ₹16.22 LPA in the previous year.
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