Surge in BITS-Pilani placements amid pandemic
The Hindu
Campuses see aggressive hiring by IT, pharma companies.
BITS Pilani campuses, including the Hyderabad one, has seen a surge in job offers in the second phase of placements that has seen a growth of 26.5% compared to last year in the same time frame.
The August season was optimistic with 329 opportunities given across campuses, a growth of 26.5% compared to 260 in academic year 2020-21 in the same time frame. The highest salary of ₹1.33 crore per annum was offered by DaVinci Derivatives, Amsterdam, said Balasubramanian Gurumurthy, Chief Placement Officer, BITS Pilani-India and Dubai. DaVinci Derivatives is a unique trading firm that specialises in trading volatility across multiple instruments listed on major European, US and Brazil exchanges.
Additionally, other offers have been secured by students at various international firms such as Fanatics (USA), Amazon (Berlin) and Wells Fargo (USA) during their off-campus thesis as part of their final year curriculum. He says aggressive hiring was seen in the IT and Electronics sectors by companies such as Google, Uber, Microsoft, Amazon, Flipkart, Adobe, Nutanix, Salesforce, Cisco, Walmart, Qualcomm, Micron, and Samsung R&D among others.
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