Dec 03 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)
Women shine at IIT placements
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Highest Package Touches Rs 1.42cr; 2 Girls Out Of 5 Get FB Offers
A woman was among three students who bagged the highest package at IIT-Bombay on the first day of the placement season.In fact, two women are among the five students Facebook has hired this year from the campus. This includes those hired during the pre-placement process.At IIT-Kharagpur too, a woman was among the three, who got top deals.Most of the students, who bagged premium packages, are into coding.
Around Rs 1.42 crore was the highest package offered this year to an IIT student. IIT computer science students usually bag top offers. But the number of woman in this field is always less. “This is the main reason why lesser numbers of girls manage to get top deals. This year, we have on ly five girls in the batch and most of them managed a good deal,” said a student, who got a position at San Francisco.
At IIT-Delhi, women have done better this year than 2013. “ About 15-20 women got offers, about a quarter of total number of women in our batch,” said a student, who got an offer from the Deutsche Bank At IIT-Madras, the numbers went up from last year’s 95 on day one to 158 this year, said placement coordinator Babu Vishwanathan. The highest offer made at Madras was around Rs 80 lakh.
At IIT-Roorkee, four students bagged offers from Google, Oracle and Microsoft. At IIT-Bombay, the number of
day one offers went up from 182 to 215 this year. Flipkart dominated the second day of placements at IIT-Madras with 19 offers to the students.
27 companies made 163 offers on day one at IIT-Kharagpur with Rs 42 lakh being the highest offered domestic package. The highest salary offered at IIT-Guwahati was over Rs 74 lakh.
Around Rs 1.42 crore was the highest package offered this year to an IIT student. IIT computer science students usually bag top offers. But the number of woman in this field is always less. “This is the main reason why lesser numbers of girls manage to get top deals. This year, we have on ly five girls in the batch and most of them managed a good deal,” said a student, who got a position at San Francisco.
At IIT-Delhi, women have done better this year than 2013. “ About 15-20 women got offers, about a quarter of total number of women in our batch,” said a student, who got an offer from the Deutsche Bank At IIT-Madras, the numbers went up from last year’s 95 on day one to 158 this year, said placement coordinator Babu Vishwanathan. The highest offer made at Madras was around Rs 80 lakh.
At IIT-Roorkee, four students bagged offers from Google, Oracle and Microsoft. At IIT-Bombay, the number of
day one offers went up from 182 to 215 this year. Flipkart dominated the second day of placements at IIT-Madras with 19 offers to the students.
27 companies made 163 offers on day one at IIT-Kharagpur with Rs 42 lakh being the highest offered domestic package. The highest salary offered at IIT-Guwahati was over Rs 74 lakh.
