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With the highest annual package of over $164,000, or Rs 1.17 crore, this year, IT giant Microsoft has continued its streak of emerging as the top recruiter on Day One of final placements at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Older as well as some newer IITs kicked off their first phase of the final placements process in two slots on Sunday. Last year, Microsoft had given the highest international offer of $215,000 (more than Rs 1.54 crore) at multiple IITs. Participating in the first slot of the first day of placements, Microsoft gave the highest number of offers at multiple campuses including IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Guwahati. At IIT Madras, Microsoft gave 20 offers, followed by 11 by Goldman Sachs, nine by Qualcomm, and seven by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The US-based IT giant extended 24 offers, the highest, at IIT Kharagpur, followed by Goldman Sachs at 14. Read More

Job offers for students of Indian Institute of Technology , Madras (IITM) during the first phase of placements for 2018-19 has gone up by nearly 30 per cent compared to last year, the institute said. The number includes pre-placement offers (PPO) as well. IITM said the first in three days of placements (1-3 December 2018) 133 companies arrived at the campus and extended 680 offers to the students. “When combined with 136 PPOs, the total number of offers stands at 816 at the end of Day Three," said IIT Madras authorities. According to IITM, 13 international job offers have also been extended. As many as 20 startups have made 78 offers at the end of Day 3. During the academic year 2017-18, 106 companies made 526 offers (643 including PPOs) at the end of third day of phase I of campus placements. Prof Manu Santhanam, Advisor (Placements), IITM said, “We had a great start to this year’s placements. We hope the strong trend continues over the next four days as