We had the opportunity to catch up with Aditya Bharadwaj (DD-EE ’15) and Supreet Hegde (DD-BT ’16) who are currently placed in Auctus Advisors, a management consultancy firm that advises clients in diverse sectors. Aditya Bharadwaj is a dual degree graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering. A former resident of Alaknanda Hostel, he was also the Students General Secretary for 2014-2015.  His work with Auctus has given him the opportunity to work with the Governme

We had the opportunity to catch up with Kishan Jani (DD-ED ’17) who is currently placed in ITC, India’s largest FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) company. He speaks about his placement preparation and experience, the selection process and his work at ITC so far and the steep learning curve it offers in multiple roles. 1.How was your placement experience? The placement days were as much grueling as the process can be throughout the semester, with continuous tests and interview

Sundar Annamalai, a graduate of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering shares with us his experience in maneuvering the graveyard session of the placement season and bagging one of the highest paid jobs on campus. Read on to find out more about his experience with Uber. How​ ​was​ ​your​ ​Placement​ ​experience? Placements was a really exciting experience. I still cherish the 4 hours of back to back interviews I had late in the night and putting in weeks of prepar

Srijith Rajagopalan is a Chemical Engineering alumnus of 2017. He talks about his insti life, his PoRs, his academic life and his ‘accidental’ landing in Goldman Sachs. Read on for a first-hand experience of the ‘stressful’ and ‘serious’ interview at Goldman Sachs and for some insightful placement gyan. Srijith has also provided a link to the detailed interview expectations and questions which you can find with this article. Every Finance Analyst’s Dream Job My experience wit

Here we bring you an article summarizing essential fundaes from yet another graduate – Ankit Jain who graduated this year from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Read on to find out how he bagged an offer from CleanMax Solar – a coveted company in the energy sector. Can you please tell us a bit about yourself I graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Dual degree student in the year 2017. You can look me up on Linkedin to know more about my work and

EXL has been in the forefront of data analytics in the country and has been a sought after job profile for several students. Read below where our recent alumnus – Ramya Madhuri, a graduate of the Department of Civil engineering shares her experience of working at EXL and the placement process to bag this coveted job offer. How was your placement experience? You were placed on the very first day of placements. How did you prepare for it? What was going on in your mind? I was s

Aryendra Sharma, an alumnus of the 2018 batch, is currently working in the professional services firm, Alvarez & Marsal which was a Day 1.1 company during the placements. In an interview with Chennai36, he talks about his experience at A&M, his placement experience and how one should go about preparing. How has been your experience working with A&M so far? A&M is a consulting firm, more popular abroad than in India, especially in the U.S. The team in which I’m working has the

American Express is one of the world’s largest payment services provider. It is a Day 1 company and one of the most coveted in Analytics profile during the insti placement process. Akash Garg, a Dual Degree Civil Engineering alumnus of 2018, speaks to Chennai36 about his placement experience with AmEx. 1. How did you get interested in analytics and how did you zero in on AmEx? Till the end of my 3rd year, I was not really sure about what I was interested in, although I figure

Naman Garg, a recent graduate from the Mechanical Engineering department of IIT Madras is currently working as Associate Product Manager at Flipkart. We at Chennai36, spoke to him about his experience and compiled fundaes for the placement season. Cue) Let’s start by talking about your final year insti life, especially the placement phase… My final year in the institute was pretty dynamic… I don’t know how exactly to describe it, but it was a mix of a lot of things, the typic

Vansh Gera from the Department of Chemical Engineering talks to Chennai36 about his insti life and dispenses some gyan about his placement experience at the investment bank and financial services company, Goldman Sachs. Hi Vansh, so what do you do in Goldman Sachs? I am in securities division. This is one of the four or five divisions of Goldman Sachs which they come to hire. In securities there are two main divisions: Equities and FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commoditi

Here is a glimpse of how the placement process was and some related fundaes, from our recent alumnus, Mitul Shah, from the Department of Engineering Design, who is now placed at FinMechanics, a day 1 company during the placement season. Placement Process Review – Non-Core Firstly, being from ED gives you a little disadvantage here. We have a compulsory 6-month internship during our 8th semester, which is right before our placements. Because of this, I did not get sufficient t

Akhil Reddy, an alumnus from the department of Electrical Engineering, shares his experiences of going through the placement season and landing a job at Barclays – one of the biggest companies in the banking sector. Here is a short excerpt from our interview with Akhil. 1. How was your placement experience? What was going on in your mind? So, I got placed on day 3. I was disappointed with myself after the first 2 days. When I walked in for the interviews on day 1, I thought I

Rahul Sahani, from the Department of Civil Engineering, was placed at Citi Bank. In this interview with Chennai36, he talks about his journey in the institute and recounts his placement experience. What does your work at Citibank involve doing? The work here is mostly web development and coding. Quite a few are not from a CS background so we have to undergo some training. Currently, what I’m working on is a web application wherein we have to shift a web app that was built 5

Rohan Ajith, a 2017 Chemical Engineering alumnus talks about his placement experience and subsequent selection in Vedanta. He talks about the work culture at Vedanta and what they look for in employees. He also gives a lot of insight and interesting opinions on how PoRs can be used effectively to overcome CGPA barriers and help in your day to day work. The Dynamic Work Culture My experience with Vedanta has been great so far. I am placed in Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) a

Axis Bank, India’ largest retail bank is a sought after company during the placement process. Read below where our recent alumnus – Srinivas Sridharan, a graduate of the Department of Mechanical engineering shares his experience of working at Axis and the placement process to bag this coveted job offer. How​ ​was​ ​your​ ​Placement​ ​experience?  What was going on in your mind? Placement was very important to me because I did not have any other backup plan for the future. I d

Anirvan Bordoloi (DD-NA ’17), shares his experience on maneuvering the placement season and landing a job at JP Morgan- one of the largest investment banks in the world. Here is a short excerpt from our interview with Anirvan about the hows and whys of finance. What was your placement experience? Which companies did you apply to and get shortlisted for and what other options did you have? My placement was, as anticipated, quite stressful, which is quite common. I was aiming m

Anheuser-Busch Inbev is a multinational beverage and brewing company and is considered to be one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods companies in the world. Below is an excerpt from the interview with Gaurav Singhvi, a 2017 Chemical Engineering graduate. Read on to find more about the selection procedure for the company and how he was able to get into it. Could you describe your job profile and how did you develop an interest in analytics? Could you describe your relati

Akshay Govindaraj shares his experience on maneuvering the placement season and landing a job at HSBC- one of the largest banks in the world. Here is a short excerpt from our interview with Akshay about the hows and whys of finance. What was your placement experience? Which companies did you apply to and get shortlisted for? What other options did you have? My placement performance gradually improved from the first interview. I remember my first interview was such that as soo

Sreeharsha Gunda was a Biological engineering dual degree graduate, currently enrolled in the Global IT Leadership programme of Astrazeneca. Astrazeneca is a multinational, science-led biopharmaceutical business, ranked seventh in the world for its research and development. The two-year programme comprises four rotations, each lasting six months. You could be working on business process change, implementing cloud-based technologies, developing mobile applications and lots mor

As a part of our Placement Guru vertical, Chennai36 got in touch with Suparna(EP batch of 18 ) to talk to her about her placement experience. Insti LIfe: How it all began My life in insti mostly revolved around academics. I also played badminton during my first two years, I never made it into the insti team, but I enjoyed the game. I used to ask questions about acads to my seniors. I worked on the IITM-Sat project during my freshie year and I had a good rapport with the senio