IIT placements: Samsung India plans to hire over 300 engineers, to emerge as top recruiter this year
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The leader in mobile phone and electronics manufacturing is leading the race in terms of making maximum offers in at least three Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses after the first eight days of final placements this year.
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"IITs offer some of the best engineering talent in India, and these young engineers are well-suited to the innovation mindset at Samsung," the person told ET.
Samsung has made the maximum number of offers at IIT Roorkee, IIT Varanasi and Guwahati, handing out 95 offers in these three campuses.
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"Samsung Bangalore has been the top recruiter at our institute this year with 25 offers," Kaustubha Mohanty, head, centre for career development, IIT Guwahati, told ET.
At IIT Roorkee, Samsung made 26 offers, followed by
Another top recruiter this year is outsourcing and analytics service provider EXL, which has alreaddy visited eight IITs, which includes Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Madras, Guwahati, and BHU this year, and made 127 offers, up from 111last year.
"Driven by its growth-induced demand, EXL has been consistently increasing its offers at the campuses primarily due to the quality, aptitude and trainability of the candidates. EXL hires primarily for its consultant role from all the above campuses. Placements at IITs started on December 1 and are still ongoing. The first phase of the process will end later this month, only to pick up again in January,"
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Power management company Eaton also recruited in good numbers. It made 11 offers at
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