Why getting into Google is going to be a hell of a task for IITians this year

Google is clearly going the McKinsey way at IIT placements this year, and it's not going down too well with many IITs.

The search giant, which offers 1-2 crore salary packages for international postings, is on every IITian's mind every year. But what comes as a bad news is that the company has sought to be excluded from the campus placement process in all IITs except Bombay and Delhi.

It has not taken the step because it wants to cut down on hiring, but because it wants to opt for a different route. Testimony to this is the fact that the company and students have already started reaching out to each other directly, as per confirmed sources.

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Google is clearly eyeing direct recruitments of students it finds worthy without involving the schools. This saves the company both, the time and effort, spent in going to campuses. Such off-campus hiring is, however, discouraged by the IITs because it ends up in a scattered arrangement for students. When Google informed IITs that it wanted to go off-campus, not all of them had any choice but to accept the internal company decision. Bombay and Delhi, however, are believed to have a different process in place due to which the company agreed to visit these campuses for hiring.

Last year, Google hired about 20 candidates from the five older IITs (Delhi, Bombay, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Madras). It's not clear how many IITians they will pick up this time, as the company has declined to comment on placements.

Interestingly, McKinsey also went off campus last year for its IIT recruitment during final placements. It did not recruit a single student from any campus, unlike Google which will be on the Bombay and Delhi campus in the coming few weeks. However, the management consultant did recruit about 10 IIT Delhi graduates through its alumni network, website and social media.