Chennai: The day one of the first ever online campus internship drive conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) on Monday turned out to be a major success as it saw participation from several top Indian and global companies.
They interviewed students over video conferencing platforms and offered internships for the summer of 2021.
This year also saw two international profiles for Internships, US-based Rubrik’s Software Development and Jane Street’s Quantitative Researcher, Hong Kong, offering the highest compensation, a IIT-M release said.
It said the day One of internship drive saw participation of 20 companies who made as many as 152 offers to UG students.
A total of 147 offers were made on day one last year of 2019 and the total number of internships offers made in the last academic year (2019-2020) was 554.
Prof N V Ravi Kumar, Advisor (Internship), IIT-M said the day one online internship interviews was quite successful.
“We had requested companies to be flexible considering that several of our students were in remote and far-flung locations where Internet connectivity may not be as good as in urban locations”, he said.
Microsoft India extended the maximum of 21 offers. Other top recruiters that offered internships include Google, Jane Street and Rubrik.