IIT Guwahati placement: 69 offers made during the Session 1.1

Guwahati: The placement season at IIT Guwahati started on Tuesday in a completely virtual mode with 69 offers have been made so far and the placements are still in progress for the day.

IIT Guwahati also added that 133 students from the institute have already got Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) before the commencement of the actual placement drive. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the number of PPOs offered this year is equivalent to that of the last year which shows that the overall placement scenario has not been affected so far in 2020. The institute was hopeful that the overall placement statistics would improve compared to last year.

Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Adobe, Quadaye, Oracle, Walmart, Bajaj, American Express, Uber, Accenture Japan, MTX and many more have taken part in the first day of the placement drive at IIT Guwahati. Though the students are not physically present in the campus, the entire placement process is being executed in a similar manner to that of the physical mode done in previous years.


IIT Guwahati director Prof. TG Sitharam said,"The year 2020 has seen the placement process happening online and the number of recruiters joining the virtual placement has been very encouraging despite the pandemic and we are thankful to all the recruiters. The students of IIT Guwahati who are appearing for the placement from across the country are very determined and are likely to benefit from this online process due the equal opportunity provided to them as other institutes and we expect an upward trend in placement this year at IIT Guwahati.”

Job offers have already been made in profiles such as Software Development Engineer, Member Technical staff, Hardware, Machine learning, Data Science, Business Analyst, Quant, Core Engineering (Automobile), Analyst, Product designer, Graphic designer and several other sectors.


Prof. Abhishek Kumar, head at the Center for Career Development mentioned that IIT Guwahati is conducting the placement completely in an online mode. "The placement drive is centrally coordinated from IIT Guwahati campus with all the recruiters from various companies and eligible students taking part virtually from different locations of the country. Students were given training on the virtual platform in advance for an efficient and smooth process," read a statement by IIT Guwahati.


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