Companies go on a recruitment spree at IIT Bangalore

Times News Network

Bangalore: As many as 25 companies hit the International Institute of Technology, Bangalore, to recruit the seventh batch of students this year. Despite lucrative offers, nine students declined offers, opting to pursue higher studies.

Another 64 students are pursuing the research option in industrial research laboratories like ABB Corporate Research, HP IMS, IBM Software Labs, Motorola Research, Microsoft Research, Nokia and Siemens Research.

IT majors like Amex, SAP, EMC, GE, Novell, BEA, Web Methods and Intel who have been the major recruiters continued their drive at IIIT-B recruiting 52 students.

Another interesting feature of the placement this year is that 26 students joined startup companies like Ziva, Tyfone and niche firms like Techvoyant, Kodiak Networks Fiberlink and Allgo.

Three students will spend their internship of six months at University of Kaiserslautern in Germany and one student, Megha Saini, is going to University of Trento at Italy.

Another student, Abhishek S, will be spending six months in UK working with a company and Kingston University.