Updated: December 1, 2020 6:45:12 pm
A total of 1,373 candidates have registered for this year’s IIT internship season. (Express Photo by Sahil Walia / Representational)
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has received 272 offers in the first session of the first day of its placement campaign. Despite the ongoing pandemic and the subsequent economic slowdown, the institute has managed to get a higher package than last year. The highest package offered by an Indian company stands at Rs 80 lakh on the first day, last year the institute received the highest national package of Rs 60 lakh.
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This year has also seen an increase in pre-placement offers, from 139 last year to 153 this year. The total number of offers (272) also includes PPO. The IIT has also received three international offers, however the amount has yet to be disclosed. The IIT states that more results are expected from international companies.
A total of 25 companies had interviewed the IIT-Roorkee batch in two spaces on December 1 and there will be more rounds of placements. Some of the firms that recruited in the first round were Alphonso, Amazon, Analog Devices, Flipkart, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Jaguar Land Rover, JPMorgan, Oracle, Microsoft, Uber, Vedanta among others. It is not yet clear which company made the most offers and the data will be available at the end of the placement season.
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The placement campaign was carried out virtually. Most of the institutes due to the pandemic have changed their locations online. A total of 1,373 candidates have registered for this year’s IIT internship season.
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