Amazon top recruiter at IIM Ahmedabad, offers 18 jobs

New Delhi: E-commerce major Amazon has emerged as the top recruiter for the Class of 2017 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management at Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

Amazon has offered 18 jobs to final-year post-graduate students while McKinsey & Co came a close second with 15 offers.

Over 100 firms took part in the final round of placements at IIM-A. Sector-wise, consulting firms, such as Accenture Strategy, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company and The Boston Consulting Group, made the highest number of offers.

Goldman Sachs picked 9 students, HUL extended 7 offers while Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson and Samsung gave 6 offers each.

The placement process was conducted in two stages. The first was the Laterals process where firms interviewed students with prior work experience and offered them mid-level managerial positions. More than 30 firms hired from diverse sectors such as technology, consulting, pharmaceuticals and analytics.

In the second stage of the final placement process, firms were grouped into cohorts based on the profile offered, and groups of cohorts were invited to campus across different clusters.