Punjab Post Daily Online Newspaper & Print Media
Amritsar, 30 Nov (Punjab Post Bureau) – As many as 428 students from various departments of Guru Nanak Dev University have been placed with internationally renowned Indian multinational IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Nagarro, John Deere, SAP Labs, Infogain and Code Brew. These students have been recruited as Software Engineer Trainee.
Dr. Palwinder Singh, Prof.-in-Charge Placement said that a strong team of 60 members of TCS visited the University campus for recruitment. TCS conducted online test for 730 students. After online test, technical and HR interviews, TCS offered job to 233 students. The Post Graduate students have been offered an annual salary package of Rs. 3.34 Lakhs per annum (LPA) and Under Graduate students have been offered Rs. 3.18 LPA. In another placement drive, a group of senior company officials of Capgemini, Hyderabad visited the University and conducted very hectic round of On-line Aptitude test, GD and interview for the students of IT Courses. They selected 102 students at a salary package of Rs. 3.05 LPA.
Another company, Nagarro selected 10 students – 2 students at Rs. 6.00 LPA, 5 students at 5.00 LPA and 3 students at 4.00 LPA and companies like Infogain selected 8 students at Rs. 3.50 LPA, John Deere selected 7 students at Rs. 5.01 LPA, Code Brew selected 5 students 3 LPA, Clair Volex selected 2 students, 1 at 5.00 LPA and 1 at 4.00 LPA, Status Brew selected 3 students at 4.20 LPA. The test and interview process of these companies continued till late night. The student volunteers of 2nd year and 3rd year alongwith Placement staff worked very hard till late nights in conducting the placement drives of these 3 companies successfully. The selected students are from Batch 2017 of B.Tech. – Computer Science, B.Tech. Electronics, MCA and M.Tech. from main campus Amritsar as well as the regional campuses of Jalandhar, Gurdaspur, Sathiala, Sultanpur Lodhi and constituent colleges of GNDU. These students shall join their jobs in July 2017 after their final exam.
