IIT Kanpur Placements 2020 - Salary Trends, Highest, Average & Median Salary, Top Companies

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is a leading institute in the country and is at every recruiter’s prime focus from various industries and organizations for recruiting not only at the level of undergraduate but also post-graduation and doctorate levels as the institute has always been known for its academic excellence.

The institute has made a special division solely for the purpose of IIT Kanpur placements and is better known as Students' Placement Office (SPO). The division is run and governed by a team of highly energetic, efficient, and reliable students and office staff who can handle all the aspects that are related to the placements at the campus of IIT Kanpur. The process of IIT Kanpur placements of students at the campus starts right from the time when the companies encounter the SPO and then to arranging all logistics that is required for the tests, pre-placement talks and managing interviews in the closing stages. The SPO group has a reputation of aiding that is of best level due to its vast past experience to the recruiting team. Time limit is given to every company to take a maximum time of 45 minutes per interview of a candidate and the SPO sees to it that rules related to it are followed by the companies who come to recruit. The visiting recruiters every year appreciate the services and the hospitality that are facilitated by the team of SPO. IIT Kanpur has a track record that it can be proud of and when it comes to placements as the highest IIT Kanpur placement offer that is made year on year keeps on increasing and has reached an amount of a package of around INR 1crore per annum.

IIT Kanpur Summer Placements: Students from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) who are undergoing their under graduation at the IIT Kanpur will be able to apply for a program that is related to internship and which is usually after 2nd year and is limited to summer or winter holidays. The purpose of this placement is only to encourage and improve the students own technical/research experience along with that being gained by them during their program of under graduation at IIT Kanpur. In no way does the Institute force the student to go for the internship at the MSE Dept as this is not required for academics and is solely done by the student as their own will as the students prefer it sometimes to get an idea of the company where they would like to work in future and being familiar with the people in that company and sometimes to gather experience in their respective fields by having a practical experience at things that they till now only studied in books.  

IIK Closing Placements: The closing process of placement at IIT Kanpur takes place roundabout the semester that is the last of the final year. While the closing drive of placement is ongoing, different companies from various sectors come to take part in the process of recruiting and hiring students. When a student joins the IIT Kanpur and if he has merits during his course duration then Placements are assured to him at this Institute. 

Placement Process

1. Student Placement office sends a formal invitation to the companies for commencing the process of placement.

2. Those companies who are interested in taking part in the process confirm and register on the web portal.

3. All those students who are interested in the placement process submit their resumes in the SPO.

4. SPO will verify the resumes submitted by the candidates.

5. The companies come to the campus for conducting pre placement talks.

6. Assessment tests for verbal ability and quantitative aptitude reasoning are conducted.

7. SPO finalises the final placement schedule.

8. Company obtains the information of the students interested along with assessment scores by the SPO.

9. Companies shortlist the candidates online as per respective company norms.

10. Companies visit the campus and will take the interview of the shortlisted candidates and submit the list of selected candidates to the SPO.

11. SPO will inform the candidates about the offer obtained from the company. 

Placement Statistics

Few notable topmost recruiters at IIT Kanpur are: 

• ABG Shipyard

• ABB

• Philips

• Shell

• Accenture

• Reliance Industries 

• Infosys

• Reliance Jio

• Goldman Sachs

• Rio Tinto

• Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd 

• Havells

• Saavn Media

• Rocket Fuel

• General Electric

• Saggezza

• GATI

• HSBC

• HCL

• Sony

• Larsen and Toubro

• JSW

• ITC

• Maruti

• HONEYWELL