Top recruiters such as Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Bajaj Auto, ISRO, Alphonso, and Qualcomm made offers at IIT Madras recruitment drive 2020.

IIT Madras Placements 2020: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras commenced the placements drive for the academic year 2020-21. According to the official data released by the institute, approximately 22 companies made a total of 123 offers in the first session on December 1, 2020. As compared to previous years, offers at IIT Madras are higher despite the COVID-19 impact. During the last academic year of 2019-20, 102 offers were made by 20 companies by the end of session 1.

Top recruiters such as Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Bajaj Auto, ISRO, Alphonso, and Qualcomm made offers at IIT Madras recruitment drive 2020. It is expected that phase I will go on until December 8, 2020. Placements at IIT Madras began at 7 am and concluded at 2 pm. It saw the participation of 22 companies covering 43 job profiles.

IIT Madras conducted the second and final slot of the day between 4 pm and 11 pm. 24 companies with 48 profiles were scheduled to participate. These companies include TSMC, KLA Tencor, GE and Wipro.

As the entire placement process is being conducted online across IITs due to the ongoing pandemic situation, elaborating on the same, Professor CS Shankar Ram, Advisor (Training and Placement), IIT Madras, said, “The IIT Madras Placement team has worked with our recruiting partners to seamlessly enable this transition. I am happy to share that we have exceeded the number of offers made in the 1.1 sessions from the previous academic year. I am optimistic that a similar trend would continue over the next few days.”

A total of 1,443 students registered for placements across different streams of study. As many as 256 companies will recruit for 472 profiles. A total of 71 start-ups have registered for recruitment in the ongoing academic year 2020-21. Talking about the overwhelming response the institute received during the pandemic, Pranjal Jain, Under Graduate Placement Head, IIT Madras, said, “The placement process, though conducted virtually for the first time, was very well organised. The placement team and companies were well prepared and have scheduled the interviews to avoid conflicts.”