Highlights of the Final Placement Season at IIM Calcutta
- IIM Calcutta saw 100% placements for the 2012-2014 batch with a great improvement in the roles and compensation.
- One of the main highlights is the increase in the International roles offered on campus. Eg: Optiver, Alshaya, Protiviti, Mahindra Comviva, Sharaf DG.
- IIM Calcutta received the highest number of Pre-Placement offers across all IIMs (27 PPOs) in the management consulting domain from the big-4 consulting firms (McKinsey, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co, A. T. Kearney).
- Continuing the legacy, IIM Calcutta lived up to its title of the finance campus of India. IIMC received one of the highest number of offers for the strongly coveted Investment Banking Divisions (IBD).
Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Edelweiss, etc. hired exclusively from IIMC for their IBD roles.
- Optiver, one of the world’s largest high frequency and proprietary trading firms recruited for the first time from any b-school in India. This Netherlands based firm chose to hire exclusively from IIM Calcutta.
- It is interesting to note that, Mr. Sourav Ganguly recruited for a niche brand management and marketing role.
- Several final year students were also selected to do an internship with Trinamool Congress. They would pursue this internship until their joining date at their full-time jobs.
- Marketing offers were made by all major FMCG companies and several other companies re-affirming their strong preference for IIM Calcutta. This function accounted for the largest chunk of offers.
Note that this list is not exhaustive. We have decided to mention only a few names for each of the roles.
We (IIM C Placement Committee) are choosing not to specifically reveal the PE/VC firms.
This is not an exhaustive list.
BCG and Accenture made the highest number of offers in consulting at 12 offers each.
This is not an exhaustive list.
*All the FMCGs mentioned above hired for their marketing roles except Mother Dairy. In addition to S&M, many of these FMCGs hired for other roles as well. We are choosing not to mention these additional roles and companies.
This is not an exhaustive list.
* Amazon made the highest number of offers (16, including PPOs) on campus including leadership and operations roles.
This is not an exhaustive list.
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We would like to thank the placement committee at IIM Calcutta for sharing the report with us.
Read the previous reports of the 2014 final placement season – (IIM Indore, XLRI , TISS Mumbai, IIM Ahmedabad (Unverified), IIFT Delhi & Kolkata, SPJIMR Mumbai,MDI (Unverified), FMS Delhi (Unverified))
For all reports for the Class of 2013 read here
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Raj Malhotra
EXL did not visit the campus for placements. They converted a PPI given during a case competition. DBS did not come for IBD role but a MT role mostly for marketing. Bridge i2i did not give any concrete offer on campus. Wipro offered Corporate Finance role only. ICICI prudential's role was more of an Analytics role. The international roles are mostly based out of Middle East and North Africa (except Optiver), hardly interesting.
15 Apr 2014, 08.41 PM
Raj Chakraborty
All the FMCGs mentioned above hired for their marketing roles - What exactly does this mean? Does this mean that the profiles offered are different from those in FMS, XL (say)?
16 Apr 2014, 01.39 PM
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Pratish Raj
There is absolutely "NO" difference between offers made at XL, IIM C, FMS etc. All the offers, in 99% of the cases are for Sales & Marketing (which is a very abused term as you start your career with Sales function only) In fact it is IIM A which usually does the best in Marketing but even there it's the same profiles ruling the roost
18 Apr 2014, 03.15 PM |
Vineet Jain
Difference between offers made and accepted overall is 40. In ppos it is 21 and in lats it is 18. That means the difference in finald is just 1 with 228 students in the process. Was there no dream job system or bucket list in the finals? Irrespective of that, anyone who has run a placement process will tell you how improbable that is!
16 Apr 2014, 05.42 PM
Midhun Tej
Can anyone throw some light on PGDCM Placements.. Do people from PGDCM get placed in good finance / consulting firms ? What is the median salary for PGDCM Students ? Thanks in advance
16 Apr 2014, 07.14 PM
atul mishra
As always IIMC gives excellent performance, however I dont understand why they did not reveal supply chain and IT companies because normally these companies don't forbid the placom unlike few financial firms.
16 Apr 2014, 08.52 PM
Raj Chakraborty
What is the profile offered by Google in IIM-C? Is it the same old Account Strategist role offered at the Tier-2 institutes or something else?
21 Apr 2014, 03.27 PM