Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur) Placement

Report on IIT Kanpur Placements in 2022

Graviton Trading selected three students for a package worth INR. 82 LPA, and QuantBox offered one student a package worth INR. 80 LPA, as part of IIT Kanpur's 2020-21 placement drive.

The institute received 821 offers from 230+ recruiters during the first phase of its recruitment process. The coding and software firms gave the most to the placement drive (59 percent), while the core firms contributed around 18 percent of the overall placement offers.

The placement statistics from the 2021-22 placement drive that have been noticed so far are listed in the table below:

The institute is holding a placement drive for the class of 2022, and by the end of day 8, 287 recruiters, including 16 start-ups, had made 1300 offers, including 207 PPOs, only 1100 of which had been accepted. In comparison to the previous year, the number of international bids increased by 150 percent. More over 80% of the students were placed, with 69 percent being undergraduates and 31 percent being postgraduates.

The highest foreign CTC in the 2022 placement drive was INR 2.06 LPA ($274,250), while the highest local CTC was INR 1.2 CPA. A total of 49 offers of more than one CPA were made to students.

Around 50 start-up companies, mostly in the software industry, were invited to interview at IIT-Kanpur. CDAP (Cell for Differently Abled Persons) at IIT-Kanpur made a significant contribution by alerting recruitment firms to their particular needs ahead of time.

At the institute, Google and Microsoft also presented some tempting packages for domestic profiles. One student was offered the US profile by Cohesity. Apple and Cohesity made other major domestic proposals of over INR. 60 LPA (for Indian profiles). The most lucrative international package was worth INR 1.47 crores.