Five get Rs 1 crore+ offers at IIT-Kharagpur in five days
The Times of India (December 6, 2019)
KOLKATA: Five students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have each received offers in excess of Rs 1 crore in the first five days of the ongoing final placements. Also, the number of international offers has shot up by 50% with Japanese firms leading the recruitment drive, followed by American companies.
Of the 2,005 students who have appeared for placements, 50% have already received job offers and these include 280 pre-placement offers, officials said. As many as 144 companies had visited the premier tech campus for recruitment till Thursday.
American giants Microsoft, Uber and PayPal are the firms that have offered the fattest pay cheques this year.
Altogether, 44 offers have come from international firms against 26 each last year and in 2017. The bulk of international offers--28--has come from just two Japanese tech giants. (Read More)