IIT Roorkee placements 2019-20: 3 students grab 1.54 crore package from US firm, highest ever

Three IIT Roorkee students have bagged job offers of Rs 1.54 crore per annum each from an American MNC. This is the highest ever for any student at the engineering institute.

The placement season at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) began in December 2019. Three students from IIT Roorkee have bagged job offers of Rs 1.54 crore per annum each from an American multinational company (MNC). This is the highest ever package received by any student at the premier engineering institute.

The three BTech final year students of the IIT Roorkee are from the Electronics, Computer Science, and Engineering Physics streams.

One student has got a job offer of Rs 62 lakh per annum domestically, which is the highest domestic package received this year.

IIT Roorkee, in a statement, said, "Thirty companies had participated in the placement session on day-1 and 363 students appeared for job interviews. A total of 322 job offers including the PPOs were made. The highest international package has been Rs 1.54 crore for three students, while it was Rs 62 lakh domestically."

A total of 406 job offers were made on the first day of the IIT Roorkee placement session at the institute, which will continue till December 15.

However, the institute refused to share the names of the students and the specific companies they have been placed by citing guidelines of the All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC).

Companies which visited IIT Roorkee for recruitment this session are:

• Amazon India Development Centre
• American Express India
• AppDynamics India Pvt. Ltd.
• Bajaj Auto
• BNY Mellon Technology
• Cohesity
• Goldman Sachs
• Google
• Jaguar Land Rover India Limited
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Microsoft
• Nutanix Technologies
• Oracle
• Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI)
• Sprinklr
• Squarepoint Capital
• SAP Labs
• Salesforce
• Texas Instruments
• Uber

IIT Roorkee Placements – Previous year statistics

In the past placement session 2018-2019, the campus had attracted 1,127 job offers for its students and the highest job offer of Rs 1.50 crore was made by tech giant Microsoft.

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