While students at top engineering colleges in the city often bag plump packages after their graduation, students in tier 2 and tier 3 colleges are finding it difficult to secure decent placements this year amid the recession and layoffs at MNC companies. Apart from that, students from branches other than Computer Science (CS) and Information Science (IS) have revealed that companies are not even turning up at colleges to recruit.
A student from a private engineering college in Koramangala said only three companies had turned up at her college to recruit from the Electronic Communication (EC) branch. “The college had promised 100% placements when we joined. Now, there are very few companies coming here for EC, and there are no recruiters for the civil and mechanical branches. Even the companies which are coming are start-ups and are offering a package of ₹4 lakh per annum. Our fees for four years was more than that,” said Vineetha S.
“All big companies want to recruit from Computer Science or Information Science branches. Even if they take interviews of students from other branches, they expect us to know programming and coding, which is completely different from what we have studied. In my batch, only five people have been placed so far, and three of them have not been given offer letters.”Sahana K.Engineering college student
