IIMB receives 606 job offers; 512 students get placements
The Hindu
‘Our students received offers from reputed companies despite a slowdown in the market,’ says Professor Debolina Dutta, chairperson, career development services, IIMB
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on February 18 said it received 606 job offers from various tech, nontech, e-com enterprises and banks during this placement season and all 512 of its students who appeared for interviews landed jobs.
The lateral and final placements for the PGP and PGP-BA class of 2021-23 IIMB saw 606 offers, leading to all 512 students who appeared for placements being placed over two interview days, it said in a statement.
Professor Debolina Dutta, chairperson, career development services, IIMB, said, “Our students received offers from reputed companies despite a slowdown in the market.”
Consulting companies made 221 offers led by Accenture with 32 offers, followed by Boston Consulting Group with 26 offers. Top recruiters included Bain & Company (23), Tata Consultancy Services (18), McKinsey & Company (16), Kearney (15), Ernst & Young (13), PricewaterhouseCoopers (11), Alvarez & Marsal (8), Oliver Wyman (8), Deloitte (6), Monitor Deloitte (5), Strategy & Middle East (5), GEP Consulting (4), Samagra Consulting (4), Strategy& India (4), Arthur D. Little (3), EY-Parthenon Singapore (3) while other consulting firms extended 17 offers.
Prominent recruiters in the IT and product management domain made 85 offers. They included Paytm (13), Microsoft (10), Cogoport (8), Jio Platform (7), NatWest Group (5), Cisco (4), Amagi (3), BrowserStack (3), Tata Play (3), UHG - Optum (3), Zomato (3), Myntra (2), NoBroker (2), Publicis Sapient (2), Tekion (2), and ZEE Entertainment (2).
Other companies in the IT/product management domain rolled out 13 offers. E-commerce saw 22 offers with Amazon (14) and Flipkart (8) solely contributing.
The finance domain witnessed 75 offers. Goldman Sachs made 8 offers followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank (6), Avendus Capital (5), Citi Bank (5), IDFC First Bank (4), Piramal Retail Finance (4), Barclays (3), HSBC Bank (3), Essar Capital (2), ICICI Bank (2), India Infoline Securities (2), Kotak Investment Advisor (2), Red Fort Capital (2), Standard Chartered (2), Arpwood Capital (1), Blackstone (1), BNP Paribas (1), Gaja Capital (1), Macquarie Group (1), Morgan Stanley (1), Multiples Equity (1), Piramal Alternatives (1) and Premji Invest (1) while 16 offers were received from leading financial institutions.
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