IIT placements: Samsung India plans to hire over 300 engineers, to emerge as top recruiter this year

Samsung is looking forward to hire more than 300 engineers from the country’s most prestigious technology institute-Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and this will lead to making Samsung the top recruiter from IIT campuses this year.

The leader in mobile phone and electronics manufacturing is leading the race in terms of making maximum offers in at least three Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses after the first eight days of final placements this year.

A Samsung India spokesperson confirmed that the company plans on hiring over 300 engineers from the IITs this year for its research and development (R&D) institutes in Bengaluru, Noida and Delhi.

"IITs offer some of the best engineering talent in India, and these young engineers are well-suited to the innovation mindset at Samsung," the person told ET.

Samsung has made the maximum number of offers at IIT Roorkee, IIT Varanasi and Guwahati, handing out 95 offers in these three campuses.

At IIT Kharagpur, it is just behind only Coal India. The company is also hiring aggressively from other top IITs such as Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Hyderabad.

"Samsung Bangalore has been the top recruiter at our institute this year with 25 offers," Kaustubha Mohanty, head, centre for career development, IIT Guwahati, told ET.

At IIT Roorkee, Samsung made 26 offers, followed by Wipro with 23 offers, Microsoft with 17, Reliance Industries with 16, and Citicorp Services India and EXL with 15 offers each.

Another top recruiter this year is outsourcing and analytics service provider EXL, which has alreaddy visited eight IITs, which includes Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Madras, Guwahati, and BHU this year, and made 127 offers, up from 111last year.

"Driven by its growth-induced demand, EXL has been consistently increasing its offers at the campuses primarily due to the quality, aptitude and trainability of the candidates. EXL hires primarily for its consultant role from all the above campuses. Placements at IITs started on December 1 and are still ongoing. The first phase of the process will end later this month, only to pick up again in January," Vivek Jetley, senior vice-president, EXL Analytics, told ET.

Power management company Eaton also recruited in good numbers. It made 11 offers at IIT Hyderabad to emerge the single largest recruiter there while at IIT BHU it made 10 offers.