Day 4 of campus placements — 500 IIT-B graduates get jobs

A number of students have been offered offshore positions by the US and Japanese firms.

Around 500 students of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) bagged offers by Monday evening in the first phase of campus placements.

The daytime slot on the fourth day of placements saw around 50 students getting offers from companies such as Vedanta, Mahindra and Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) analytics. (HT file photo)

The daytime slot on the fourth day of placements saw around 50 students getting offers from companies such as Vedanta, Mahindra and Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) analytics. The pace of offers is slightly lower than last year, when around 550 offers were made at the end of the first slot on Day 4.

A number of students have been offered offshore positions by the US and Japanese firms.

Aditi Laddha, a student from IIT-B’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), received one of the top offers during the campus placements. The only women from the institute to land a US job at IIT-B during this year’s placements, she was selected for app-based aggregator Uber’s US offices, along with another student.

Microsoft and Oracle are the other companies which have reportedly offered US profiles this year. The placements season has also witnessed a rise in Japanese firms hiring students for positions in their home country. Murata, Yahoo Japan and Rakuten Inc. are some of the top recruiters visiting IIT-B this year.

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