Consulting roles dominate this year's IIM Bangalore summer placement drive

A plethora of recruiters showed up for the IIM Bangalore summer placement drive offering myriad roles to the students. Dominated by the Consulting domain, this year's drive saw the best and brightest vie for the attention of the recruiters to bag the best available roles available.
Here are some key highlights from this years summer placement drive:
Batch Strength | 437 |
Offers Made | 456 |
Roles Offered | Consulting, Finance, Business Analytics, E-Commerce, IT/Product Management, Retail, Operationsand Sales and Marketing |
A further domain wise breakdown shows us which firms focussed on what roles.
Consulting
Accounting for 28% of all roles that were extended to students, Consulting roles were offered by some of the top names in this industry. Accenture Strategy, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Nomura Consulting, PwC India, EY, Deloitte USI, IBM Consulting, Roland Berger, KPMG, Cognizant and Alvarez & Marsal were some of the firms who participated in this year's IIM Bangalore summer placement drive.
Sales & Marketing
18% was the share captured by this domain in this drive. Totalling 79 offers, the domain was led by AB inBev and Vodafone Idea Limited, both offering 7 internship roles each. Other notable names such as Lenovo, Coca Cola, Nestle, Samsung, Kimberly Clark, Asian Paints, ITC Limited, Bajaj Auto, L’Oreal, Dabur, and Wipro Consumer Care pitched in as well.
Finance
Finance offers accounted for 16% of the total roles offered. Goldman Sachs led the way with 13 roles, with others following suit. A few noteworthy names are Citibank, Barclays, Brookfield Asset Management, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Reliance Treasury, P&G Finance, and Hindustan Unilever Finance among others pitching in as well.
IT and Product Management
Totalling 13% of the entire number of roles offered, Microsoft took the reins in this domain with 10 offers. Other firms eyeing this domain were Royal Bank of Scotland, Honeywell, Adobe, Marico, Intel, Sprinklr, VMware, Byju's, Ola, and P&G were some of the notable participants in the list.
General Management
Tata Administrative Services led the field with 5 offers in this list which amassed a 9% share of all roles offered. Aditya Birla Group, Vedanta, Mahindra&Mahindra, Reliance Industries Limited, Adani Group, and Star India were some of the notable names looking out for such roles.
E-Commerce
Amazon offered an impressive 24 roles in this domain to the students. A 7% share was captured here which saw companies such as Flipkart, Cloudtail, OLX, PayPal and Prione.
Operations
Bagging a 4% share in this drive, Uber led the pack with 5 roles followed by some other well known names such as Marico, Airtel, Royal Bank of Scotland, BIAL, Marico and Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages.
Analytics
American Express and United Health Group were the prominent names offering 4 and 3 roles respectively in Analytics . These gathered a 3% share from the entire lot at IIM Bangalore.
Retail
Apparel Group and Alshaya totalled for 10 offers in this sector making up for 2% of the share. Alshaya led with 7 offers and Apparel Group offered 3.
All in all, there was an impressive showing by both sides, namely the students and recruiters at this year's IIM Bangalore summer placement drive.
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