For a second year in a row, Accenture Strategy has been the top recruiter at IIM Ahmedabad’s summer placements. The recently-concluded summer placement saw students placed across more than 15 sectors and functions of their choice.
Firms were grouped into cohorts based on the profile offered and invited to the campus in 3 clusters. As in the previous years, students were allowed to submit “dream” applications to firms of their choice in a cluster even with an offer in hand. More than 120 students applied this year.
Who All Made It To The Top
–Among the global banks, Citibank made five offers.
–FinIQ was the top recruiter in the banking, financial services and insurance recruiters (BFSI) cohort, having made 10 offers.
— AB InBev recruited nine students and took the lead in the Consumer Goods cohort while the RPG Group was the top recruiter in the General Management cohort with 14 offers.
— Amazon, with 12 offers, was the highest recruiter in the Retail B2B space, followed by Flipkart
— Microsoft was the leading recruiter in the Consumer Tech cohort with five offers, followed by Uber.
— The Telangana government, which hired for the Industry & Commerce and ITE&C departments, also made five offers.
The placements also saw an active participation in the PE and VC domain this year with the likes of Kedaara Capital, Multiples Equity, Temasek and True North visiting the campus.
Significantly, this year, 7 students opted out of the placement process to work on their own ventures under the mentorship of Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), which is two more than last year’s batch.
