Hyderabad: GITAM Deemed to be University, Hyderabad Campus has started its Campus Placements for the 2018-19 academic year. Software service providers like Virtusa (21 students) and Mu Sigma (12 students) have together issued a good number of job offers with the highest pay package of Rs 21 Lakh per three years to the students of GITAM.
Training and Placements Cell Director Dr Nathi Venu Kumar announced that Virtusa selected students for their “Front End Engineering” Technology area. Earlier, GITAM established Centre of Excellence with Virtusa in Front End Engineering Technology. TechAspect completed the placement process and the result was yet to be announced. IBM, ValueMomentum, CoreCompete, Nine Leaps, Berkadia, OpenText and NTT Data are going to conduct campus placement drives this month. GITAM also entered an MoU with Barkadia to take up campus placements.
The companies selected the candidates on the basis of a written test followed by Group Discussion and a rigorous interview round. The first phase of the campus placement program was held for the current final year students across various branches of B.Tech programs. Some 33 students got the offer letters from the two companies even in August. The selected students were excited and said they had worked really hard to bag offers from the renowned companies. (NSS)