Companies like McKinsey, HUL and Samsung skip campus placements, take PPO route to beat rushMcKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group, HUL and Samsung partially or wholly skipped the frenzy of engineering campus final placements this y...
30 Dec, 2015, 06.57 AM IST
Restaurant guide Zomato goes off placements menu at IITsZomato, valued at over $1 bn, was denied a day one slot as a recruiter as its salary offers, amounting to a total of Rs 26 lakh, was too lo...
11 Nov, 2015, 10.44 AM IST
Limited H-1B visas may force Facebook to skip placement season at IITs this yearAt least five IITs confirmed that the online social networking service, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, was not visiting them this...
21 Oct, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
IIT students crumble under study load, expectations from family and peersStress is part and parcel of college life, but for some students at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it can get overwhelming.
05 May, 2015, 04.31 AM IST
Lukewarm response to IIT-Bombay start-up fairA student who visited a couple of stalls of his interest, said that the profiles were good, but he would prefer to wait for an internship w...
02 Feb, 2015, 11.29 AM IST
IIT-Bombay students get first 'start-up' fair\Considering the broad trend of students choosing to launch their own ventures, IITB's placement and entrepreneurship cells will hold a fir...
29 Jan, 2015, 12.30 PM IST
IIT placements rise 15% in first phase of hiringAt IIT-Madras, 880 students have already got job offers and 850 at IIT-Kanpur, where the first phase of placements is still to end.
20 Dec, 2014, 01.09 PM IST
Lure of money: IITians under parental pressureThe hype over IIT graduates bagging Rs 1 crore-plus pay packages during campus interviews comes with its share of problems.
09 Dec, 2014, 12.45 PM IST
50% IIT-Bombay job aspirants placed in first weekAt IIT-B, around 15 students have been offered a crore-plus packages this year by Facebook, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Samsung.
08 Dec, 2014, 11.21 AM IST
IITs launch deferred placement programme for students to return for placement if their start-ups failIIT-Kanpur is offering the opportunity for the first time and six students have already opted for it. IIT-Madras is extending it to even st...
07 Dec, 2014, 02.22 AM IST
IIT graduates prefer new-age jobs to core engineering onesOla cabs, a start-up that IIT-Bombay students have set up, hired largest numbers of students — around 50 — from IIT-Bombay. It hired 30 fro...
05 Dec, 2014, 11.08 AM IST
IIT graduates prefer new-age jobs to core engineering onesOla cabs, a start-up that IIT-Bombay students have set up, hired largest numbers of students — around 50 — from IIT-Bombay. It hired 30 fro...
05 Dec, 2014, 09.24 AM IST
Female IIT-B graduate in top 3 recruits with Rs 1.4 crore Facebook offerTwo of the five students hired by the social networking giant this year from the campus are women.
03 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST
Changing trend: Over 10% of IIT graduates likely to join new-generation companies this year"Students rate these companies highly, which is why several of them get slotted in the first few days of campus placement." said an IIT Bom...
03 Dec, 2014, 08.43 AM IST
Startups to hire most freshers at IITs this placement seasonAlready, the number of startups who have enrolled for the campus placement season this year has doubled or trebled at many IITs.
16 Oct, 2014, 06.34 AM IST
Clutch of IITs to offer ‘deferred placements’ to students who choose entrepreneurship over a careerAs many as 13 students from the Class of 2015 at IIT-Bombay have applied for deferred placements this year to pursue entrepreneurial ventur...
29 Aug, 2014, 06.45 AM IST
Rush of pre-placement offers at IITs hints at good year for graduatesAt IIT Bombay , job announcement forms submitted by companies are already double of what was seen at the same time last year.
22 Aug, 2014, 08.39 AM IST