7 Placed And The Battle is Still On !

Fortunately 7 seniors have already been placed out of several companies that visited our campus. Some of them are :
Success Factors
IBM
D.E. Shaw
National Instruments
Thoughtworks
Novellus
Cerner
Informatica

        Mr. Sundar Raj, the placement co-ordinator has aced the placements and has received a record breaking package of 14 Lakhs pa.
        Some of the major companies expect criteria of 60%, 75% throughout. Others have criteria like 60% in MCA. Most of us do not satisfy the criteria because of the blunder in our 12th. However, very few companies stress on 12th scores.
        The placements begin from July 2nd soon after the 4th semester and go on till the end of 5th semester. The dream companies visit first, followed by the other mass recruiters. The package varies from 3 - 10 Lakhs pa.
         However keep in mind that we all are competing against the BE's when it comes to placements. There are a hand full of companies that recruit only MCA's.

Some Quality Time

     Since the time we entered college, we never had an opportunity to interact with our seniors. However after one yr, our HOD arranged a session with some of our successful seniors who have already been placed in various companies.
     The session was for an hour and it was very informative indeed. They shared with us their experiences while facing the interviews and also guided us to take placements seriously so that we are pre prepared for the big battle.
      It was indeed a pleasure to have such good seniors and we all realized their importance and need. They also advised us to start preparing for the placements by referring some useful websites such as :

http://www.indiabix.com/
http://www.freshersworld.com/
http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm

and take up some tests which will help us in the 5th semester.  I hope this info will be useful for all of us in the near future.