Optiver makes highest international offer of Rs 1.39 crore pa at IIT Bombay

Microsoft, Texas Instruments among top recruiters at IITs in terms of offers

Dutch firm Optiver has made the highest international offer of Euros 1.57 lakh (Rs 1.39 crore) per annum at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay as the premier institutes kicked off their final placements process on Tuesday.
 
Apart from Optiver, IIT Bombay saw highest domestic salaries being offered on the first day of placements by Qualcomm (Rs 46.41 lakh/annum), WorldQuant (Rs 39.70 lakh/annum), Morgan Stanley (Rs 37.25 lakh/annum) and Uber (Rs 35.38 lakhs/annum)
 
In terms of number of offers, Microsoft, Google, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Boston Consulting Group and Apple were among the top recruiters across some of the major IITs, including Bombay and Madras.
 
Participating in the first session of Day One, Microsoft extended 19 offers, followed by Texas Instruments (12), Bajaj Auto (10), ISRO (10), Alphonso Inc (9) and Qualcomm (8) at IIT Madras. While the IITs are mum on the international salary packages offered this year, sources said that the likes of Microsoft and Cohesity, too, have offered crore-plus salaries to some of the students. The second session was still on till the time of going to print on Tuesday night.
 
By the first session itself, IIT Madras saw a 20 per cent jump in the total number of offers -- 123 in all -- extended by 22 recruiters this year. Last year, the number was 102. On the first day, a total of 46 recruiters lined up with 91 job profiles.
 
At IIT Roorkee, the first slot till Tuesday afternoon saw 25 companies make 119 offers, with the highest domestic salary rising by 33.3 per cent to Rs 80 lakh -- up from Rs 60 lakh last year.
 
IIT Roorkee also saw three international offers though the salary details were not disclosed for those. This year, IIT Roorkee also saw a 10 per cent increase in pre-placement offers (PPO) at 153 as compared to 139 last year. Including PPOs, total offers in the first two slots till Tuesday afternoon stood at 272.
 
Marquee recruiters from IT, consulting, automobile and core domains extended offers. Among them were Amazon, Cohesity, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Jaguar Land Rover, JPMorgan Chase, SAP Labs, Texas Instruments, Uber and Vedanta Limited (Cairn Oil & Gas), besides others.

 
IIT Guwahati, meanwhile, attracted 69 offers by first session of Day One with marquee recruiters like Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Adobe, Quadaye, Oracle, Walmart, Bajaj, American Express, Uber, Accenture Japan, and MTX, among others participating in the recruitment drive.
 
Job offers in profiles such as software development engineer, member technical staff, hardware, machine learning, data science, business analyst, quant, core engineering (automobile), analyst, product designer, and graphic designer, among others, were made at IIT Guwahati. Placements were still in progress for the day.
 
A total of 1,443 students have registered for placements in the 2020-21 academic year at IIT Madras with 256 companies registering for first phase of placements. The registered companies have committed to recruit 472 profiles. As many as 71 start-ups have also registered for recruitment in the ongoing academic year 2020-21.
 
Before the final placements process began on Tuesday, several IITs also attracted pre-placement offers (PPOs) from recruiters after successful stint by their students during summer internships. This year, while IIT Bombay has so far seen 153 PPOs being accepted by students, which is higher than last year, IIT Guwahati saw 133 students bagging PPOs.
 
Meanwhile, IIT Madras attracted 182 PPOs till November 28, 2020, compared with 170 PPOs made during the entire preceding academic year of 2019-20.
 
IIT Kharagpur saw 30 companies participate on the first day. Over 130 offers had been made till evening, with international offers being made by TSMC, Sony, and Cohesity. For the 2020-21 placement drive, 2,100 plus students have registered at IIT Kharagpur, out of which 1,300 are UG/dual degree students. More than 200 companies are registered to participate in the first phase of the recruitment drive.