IIT Hyderabad placements 2019: 53 offers received in first slot; BookMyShow, Jaguar, Bajaj Auto among big recruiters

IIT Hyderabad placements 2019: The placement season at IIT Hyderabad for 2019-20 Academic Year started with a bang as 53 offers were received from 15 companies during the first slot of recruitment. BookMyShow, Jaguar and Bajaj Auto were among the top recruiters. Apart from this, the institute also received 6 international offers from companies like TSMC, SMS DataTech and NTT-AT. The Phase 1 of campus recruitment for 2019-20 will be held between 1st and 12th December 2019. The phase 2 recruitment will happen between Jan - April 2020.

A total of 477 students have registered for placements across departments this year. For the Phase I of placements, a total of 224 companies have registered, compared to about 150 companies in the phase 1 of last year (2018-19). Total of 244 companies registered in the whole of last year (2018-19).

Prominent first-time companies this year include

- BookMyShow
- Sprinkler,
- Jaguar,
- Bajaj Auto,
- BnY Mellon,
- Domino Data Labs,
- Cogoport

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The institute hopes that PSUs and Startups will participate prominently in phase 2 while traditional recruiters such as Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Intel, Qualcomm, Oracle are coming to IIT Hyderabad for recruitment this year as well. Microsoft made a record number of 17 offers. Out of this, five were given to girl students. Similarly out of 3 offers from Goldman Sachs two are secured by girl students.

"IIT Hyderabad campus has nurtured an environment of equality and played a vital role in shaping my career. I have also took the responsibility of student placement coordinator. Being masters student, my projects were on machine learning which helped me in the interview. This achievement has taught me that there will always be an option if we choose to persevere," Swati Jaiswal, a Master's student from computer science department, who bagged an offer from Microsoft said.