Engineering Student From IIIT Delhi Bags Highest Package Of Rs 35 Lakh

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi has concluded its campus placement season for the 2016-17 batch with more than 100 companies making as many as 342 offers to the students. The average salary package received by students this year stood at Rs 12 lakh per annum.

The maximum annual salary package offered was Rs 35 lakh, given to a BTech graduate from an ERP system manufacturing company Works Application. The institute has claimed offers of up to RS 26.5 lakh for MTech stream.

While technology giants like Google, Oracle and IBM came looking for fresh recruits, companies such as Amazon, Qualcomm, Works Application, IBM Research, Sandisk, Directi, and Adobe also offered jobs to students. Major job profiles were offered as software developers, research engineers, data scientist, design engineer, system engineer and business analyst.

The campus hosted all the prominent consulting groups during the first phase. IIIT Delhi hosted 25 companies during its second phase of placement. The maximum annual compensation package was of Rs 16.5 lakh offered by Qualcomm. This was the first time that Qualcomm, an A+ category company visited IIIT-Delhi. The institute also claims that this year emerged as the biggest recruiter of the season making 32 offers.

Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT-Delhi commented on the same, “We are delighted. Our students have made us proud by bagging such handsome offers from leading companies. This is a moment of joy and pride. It is an affirmation of IIIT-D’s reputation and training.”

Rajguru Tandon

BW Reporters The author is a correspondent with BW Businessworld with keen interest in HR and employee welfare.