The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) has completed the lateral and final placements for the batch 2021-23 for the postgraduate programme (PGP) and PGP in Bachelor of Arts (PGP BA). In a two-day placement process, a total of 512 students received 606 offers.
Kapil Kukreja, Placement Representative, said: “We witnessed yet another excellent Placement season with an increase in offers across all sectors, driven primarily by Consulting and Product Management roles. Strategy Consulting continued to be the most sought-after role among the students, followed by General Management and Product Management.”
Consulting companies made 221 offers led by Accenture with 32 offers, followed by Boston Consulting Group with 26 offers. Top recruiters included Bain & Company (23), Tata Consultancy Services (18), McKinsey & Company (16), Kearney (15), Ernst & Young (13), PricewaterhouseCoopers (11), Alvarez & Marsal (8), Oliver Wyman (8), Deloitte (6), Monitor Deloitte (5), Strategy& Middle East (5), GEP Consulting (4), Samagra Consulting (4), Strategy& India (4), Arthur D. Little (3), EY-Parthenon Singapore (3). Other consulting firms extended 17 offers.
Prominent recruiters in the Information Technology and Product Management domain, who made 85 offers are Paytm (13), Microsoft (10), Cogoport (8), Jio Platform (7), NatWest Group (5), Cisco (4), Amagi (3), BrowserStack (3), Tata Play (3), UHG – Optum (3), Zomato (3), Myntra (2), NoBroker (2), Publicis Sapient (2), Tekion (2), and ZEE Entertainment (2). Other companies in the IT/Product Management domain rolled out 13 offers. The 22 offers made in the fast-growing E-commerce space included Amazon (14) and Flipkart (8).
There were 75 offers in the Finance domain. Among banks, Goldman Sachs made the maximum of 8 offers followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank (6), Avendus Capital (5), Citi Bank (5), IDFC First Bank (4), Piramal Retail Finance (4), Barclays (3), HSBC Bank (3), Essar Capital (2), ICICI Bank (2), India Infoline Securities (2), Kotak Investment Advisor (2), Red Fort Capital (2), Standard Chartered (2), Arpwood Capital (1), Blackstone (1), BNP Paribas (1), Gaja Capital (1), Macquarie Group (1), Morgan Stanley (1), Multiples Equity (1), Piramal Alternatives (1) and Premji Invest (1) while 16 offers were received from leading financial institutions.
Conglomerates recruited for their leadership tracks making 86 offers in General Management positions with Adani Group and Vedanta leading with 8 offers each followed by Lodha Group (7), DTDC (6), Brillio (4), CK Birla (4), RPG Group (4), Tata Steel (4), Capgemini (3), Infosys Europe (3), NPCI (3), Reliance Industries (3), Tata Administrative Services (3), Bajaj Finserv (2), Gyansys (2), IIFL (2), Sun Pharma (2), Visa Inc. (2), and Aditya Birla Group (1). Emaar Group and JSW extended one offer each, with other companies making 13 offers.
Students opting for Sales and Marketing roles received 67 offers and were recruited by major consumer goods firms led by Asian Paints (8), Samsung India (5), Navi (4), Nestle (4), ITC (3), Mondelez International (3), Procter & Gamble (3), Xanadu (3), Alkem Laboratories (2), Coca-Cola (2), Haleon (2), HCCB (2), IBM (2), Mastercard (2), Pidilite (2), Pingsafe (2), Tata Play (2), Tata Steel (2), Wipro Consumer Care (2), Airtel (1), Colgate Palmolive (1), Dabur (1), Hindustan Unilever (1), Kimberly Clark (1) and Philips India (1). Other companies rolled out 6 offers.
Operations roles saw 15 offers with Cogoport (5), OLA Electric (3), Uber (3), NatWest Group (2), Delhivery (1) and Five Holdings (1).
The Analytics sector rolled out 35 offers in total with American Express leading with 16 offers, followed by EXL Services (9), Capital One (2), Cargill (2), and JPMC (1), with other companies making 5 offers.