IIM Ahmedabad Placement Report 2019

On 14th February 2019, the esteemed management school, IIM Ahmedabad, wrapped up its placements for the PGP 2017-2019 batch with the 3rd and final cluster. The IIM Ahmedabad placement process was completed over 3 days.

Firms from a variety of domains participated across 3 clusters in the final placements. Students were placed across more than 23 cohorts. This cluster-cohort system is unique to IIM Ahmedabad placement cell and encourages students to shape their careers according to role and sector.

Following tradition, students who had an offer in hand were allowed to make ‘dream’ applications to a company of their choice in a subsequent cluster. The dream application process allows students to sit for 5 more companies after securing an offer. A report follows.

The first 2 rows clearly indicate how abundantly recruiters made offers and the diversity in roles that they offered.

The 1st cluster

There were 5 cohorts in the 1st cluster. These were:

• Investment Banking And Markets

• Management Consulting

• Advisory Consulting

• Private Equity

• Venture Capital and Asset Management

Top recruiters included: Accenture Strategy, AT Kearney, Avendus, Bain & Co., Goldman Sachs, etc.

Among these, companies which belonged to the finance sector made the maximum number of offers.

The 2nd cluster

There were 6 cohorts in the 2nd cluster:

• Consumer Goods

• Consumer Services

• Consumer Electronics

• Advertising and Media

• General Management and Leadership

• Retail B2B and B2C

Since the cohorts were so diverse, the kinds of roles offered were diverse, too. Maximum offers, though, were made in the General Management and Leadership cohort followed by Consumer Goods Firms.

Overall, CK Birla Group made the highest number of offers in this cluster (10), followed by Aditya Birla Group, Flipkart, and Samsung (9 each).

The 3rd cluster

The 3rd cluster had even more cohorts: 12. These included:

• BFSI

• Consumer Tech

• Core Manufacturing & Infrastructure

• Education & Tech

• Enterprise Tech

• Food & Dairy

• Govt. Enterprises

• IT Consulting

• Pharma & Healthcare

• Renewable Energy & GreenTech

• Social Enterprises & NGO

• Textiles

Paytm extended the highest number of offers in this cluster (10), followed by Microsoft (8).

The 3rd cluster received over 90 dream applications. New recruiters in the 3rd cluster included: SAIF Partners, United Breweries, Etihad Airways, Russell Reynolds, and OLAM

Placements for PGP-FABM (Post Graduate Programme in Food and Agri-business Management)

The placements for PGP-FABM were held on 11th February 2019. A total of 30 companies participated and spanned the following sectors:

• FMCG

• Agri Inputs and Services

• Food Processing and Supply Chain

• Food and Agribusiness PE-VC

• Food and Agri Consulting

• Agri Commodity Trading

• E-Commerce

• Retail

First-time recruiters: Ernst and Young, RBL Bank, Reliance Foundation

Regular recruiters: Cloudtail, Reckitt Benckiser, ADM, and KPMG

Re-engaged recruiters: Rabobank INI Farms

The salary packages will not be revealed until the IIM Ahmedabad completes its audits during August and September. Past years, though, have seen the following salary trends:

Seeing the upward trajectory of salaries in previous years, it seems like 2019 trends will also follow suit. The audited reports to be released in the 2nd half of the year.

Source: Placement Report 2019