Hiring in bulk is back on campuses with leading information technology (IT) companies Infosys, Wipro, Accenture and Cognizant recruiting in four digits, and making multiple offers to one student in some cases.
In certain cases, in a bid to place more students, engineering institutes have done away with reserving Day One slot for a specific IT company and are inviting more than one company on campuses for recruitment.
In this numbers game, 4,000 job offers were made on the first day of the recruitment at Chennai-based SRM University, of which 3,700 were from three IT majors - Infosys, Wipro and Cognizant. While Cognizant handed over 1,502 job offers, Infosys and Wipro issued 1,105 and 1,082 offers, respectively, on the first day.
"The current year was better than last year in terms of placements, and around 100 companies are expected to visit the campus in engineering section alone,' said S Ganapathy, dean (placement cell) at SRM University.