IIT Kharagpur Placements: 30 Companies Offered 130 Jobs on Day One
NDTV-Education (December 2, 2020)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur bagged 276 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) out of 425 eight-weeks internship opportunities with the beginning of placement sessions for the academic session 2020-21.
New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur bagged 276 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) out of 425 eight-weeks internship opportunities with the beginning of placement sessions for the academic session 2020-21. Recruiters such as Barclay, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Microsoft, MasterCard, Dr. Reddy, Tata Steel have offered more than 10 PPOs each.
As many as 30 companies participated on the first day, extending over 130 placement offers to the final year students. In addition to the domestic firms, International firms- TSMC, Sony-Japan and Cohesity US offered jobs as well.
For the 2020-21 academic session placement drive, over 2100 students have registered out of which 1300 are UG/dual degree students. More than 200 companies will be participating in the first phase of the IIT Kharagpur recruitment drive. Initially, 25 - 27 per cent core companies, 65 per cent software and 10 per cent consulting firms opened up prospects for the students. (Read More)