Companies flouting placements norms attract the IITs wrath

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Companies flouting placements norms attract the IITs wrath
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The reputed Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have decided to keep a sharp eye on companies that ignore placement guidelines maintained by them. This step has come at a time when placement season, the war for talent at IITs, begins on Tuesday, and reportedly, some top rung companies are taking to off-campus placements.

Older IITs, which include the ones in Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Roorkee, Guwahati, Kharagpur, and Kanpur have decided to take a strict stand against any recruiter who would be found breaking the placement guidelines. All these institutes would be joining hands under the umbrella of All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC).

However, there is another concern for IITs, and a bigger one at that. Top recruiters are having an increasing tendency to follow an off-campus placement strategy, as per some placement officials.
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"We are concerned as more and more companies like McKinsey, Google and Goldman Sachs are either completely or partially going off the campus," a professor at IIT Madras placement cell told ET on the condition of anonymity. For now, Goldman Sachs and Google hire after conducting online tests through the placement cells at IIT. However, placement officials are afraid that the hiring would gradually shift online, which would nullify the role that placement cells play.

A student representative of IIT Kharagpur, however, said that most students still want to go to startups. Startups, on the other hand, have not had a smooth road in IIT placements. Zomato, for example, has been blacklisted from IIT campuses for one year, because Deepinder Goyal, its founder, had lashed out at the placement procedure after IIT Delhi denied his firm a Day 1 slot in last year's placement.
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