IIM Lucknow completes final placements with 144 recruiters making 463 offers to the Batch of 2015

MUMBAI: IIM Lucknow has completed placements for its Batch of 2015 with a total of 463 offers being made by 144 recruiters including 43 first-timers for a batch of 453 students.

The offers included 93 pre-placement offers (PPO), 163 lateral offers from the higher entry placement process (HEPP) and 207 offers from the final placements. The number of lateral offers increased by 23% compared to last year.

ABG, Accenture Management Consulting, Amazon, Barclays, BCG, Cognizant Business Consulting, Deloitte, HDFC Bank, KPMG, McKinsey, Reliance Industries, Samsung, Snapdeal and Star TV were among the companies that recruited in big numbers.

The top segments based on roles offered were sales & marketing (25%), finance (22%), consulting (21%), e-Commerce (15%), systems/IT (10%) and general management (7%).

Airtel, Coke, GSK Consumer, HT Media, HUL, ITC, Kraft-Cadbury, P&G, Pepsi and Vodafone were among the companies that represented the FMCG/consumer goods/telecom sector/ digital media sector. The BFSI space saw participation from firms such as Avendus Capital, BAML, Barclays, Citibank, CRISIL, Development Bank of Singapore, Edelweiss, Goldman Sachs, HDFC, HSBC, ICICI bank, IndusInd Bank, Nomura, Standard Chartered and Yes Bank among others.

The consulting domain had the likes of Accenture Management Consulting, A.T. Kearney, BCG, Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, McKinsey and PwC while the general management domain had companies such as Aditya Birla Group (ABG), JSPL, Mahindra and Mahindra, Reliance Industries and TAS among others. E-commerce/IT/Technology witnessed the likes of Amazon, Appsdaily, Cognizant, Commonfloor, eBay, Flipkart, Google, HCL, Infosys, Magicbricks, Mindtree, PayTm, Shopclues, Snapdeal, Uber and Wipro.