News: Big salaries make a comeback for engineering grads

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Big salaries make a comeback for engineering grads

Google has set the placement season at top non-IIT engineering colleges off to a rocking start, offering $2,35,000 (₹ 1.44 crore) to BITS-Pilani students who make the cut for international vacancies, according to campus sources involved in the process. Microsoft is offering ₹ 79.51 lakh for jobs at its Redmond headquarters. Last year, Google and Microsoft had offered top salaries of ₹ 68.34 lakh and Rs 60 lakh, respectively. Reflecting upbeat business sentiment, aggressive recruiters including Amazon, eBay, Flipkart, Schlumberger and lesser-known startups such as CodeNation have hiked pay packets by up to 25 per cent compared with the previous year, mostly for domestic jobs.

Google has set the placement season at top non-IIT engineering colleges off to a rocking start, offering $2,35,000 (₹ 1.44 crore) to BITS-Pilani students who make the cut for international vacancies, according to campus sources involved in the process. Microsoft is offering ₹ 79.51 lakh for jobs at its Redmond headquarters. Last year, Google and Microsoft had offered top salaries of ₹ 68.34 lakh and Rs 60 lakh, respectively. Reflecting upbeat business sentiment, aggressive recruiters including Amazon, eBay, Flipkart, Schlumberger and lesser-known startups such as CodeNation have hiked pay packets by up to 25 per cent compared with the previous year, mostly for domestic jobs.

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