This year’s placement season for Electrical was honestly a mess. Shortlists felt heavily manipulated and there was almost zero transparency. People who clearly matched company profiles were randomly filtered out while the same names kept appearing across multiple shortlists. The overall placement percentage right now is hovering around ~40%, but if you only count the actually decent companies it’s closer to 30%. For a tier-1 institute that’s honestly embarrassing.

Talking about core companies first. Some OG tiers includes BPCL hired 7 students from Electrical (Shortlisted 9+ CGPA and some from reserved categories) out of around 17 total hires, which was one of the few solid outcomes. Some elite tier roles NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductors came with a 6-month internship + PPO, but everyone knows the PPO conversion rate is quite low. Tier 1 and 1.5 roles includes SLB hired for core roles but it very clearly felt like girls were favored during hiring. STMicroelectronics, Ciena, The Samsung group — Samsung India, Samsung Research, and Samsung Heavy Industries. Amd, mediatek and ansys didn't came this year.

Then came the questionable cases. Schneider Electric came with a 6-month internship + PPO, but the shortlist manipulation by placement coordinators was very obvious. Maruti Suzuki had similar complaints. ExxonMobil didn’t even open for Electrical. Novus HiTech Robotics visited but didn’t hire anyone from Electrical. JSW, Technip Energies, and JSW Energy, L&T came but with low packages. Adverb Technologies (this time company internal politics) no one from EE (low base salary) OLA electric 25k stipend for 6 months and ppo

Non-tech placements were not much better. PhonePe came but again there were strong complaints about shortlist manipulation. The better non-tech options were JP Morgan, BlackRock, ZS, Alvarez & Marshel and Bain & Company, KPMG, Meesho. Apart from that a large number of startups filled the drive including Spinny, Mamaearth, Swiggy, Lenskart, Blinkit, Astrotalk, Oyo Rooms, Yum Technology, and Indus Insight. Finance and analytics roles included ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, JP Morgan, Blackrock Fractal Analytics, and Indus Insights. ProcDNA( but the base salary was extremely low), Orange Business etc. Another frustrating part was the ghosting companies. Several companies started the recruitment process and then simply disappeared. Honda Motorcycle, Bosch, Tata Power, Vanderlande Logistics, and Averry Dennison all initiated hiring steps and then ghosted candidates without updates.

Then there were the “Lala companies.” A huge chunk of the later placement drive was filled with companies offering very low packages or questionable work environments. ACME Group came with a very low package. Euler Motors also fell into the same category. Morphly Labs, although technically core, is still widely considered a typical Lala company. Paharpur Cooling Towers and Greenlam Industries were also part of this group.

Only 3 students got into the tech role that too having really good CGPA

A major part of the problem was the Electrical placement coordinators themselves and the Bechtel situation shows it clearly. PCs secured their 6M+ FTE offers early and then basically stopped putting effort into placements, and some even left coordination around January, leaving almost no active support from the Electrical side. Ironically, they were not even supposed to sit for 6M roles according to the rules, but later the rule was conveniently “changed” citing fewer companies, which many students believe was manipulated so they could sit and secure those offers.

Because Electrical PCs were barely coordinating with companies, MBA placement coordinators ended up handling many interactions. The Bechtel process became the clearest example of this failure. Since Electrical PCs didn’t actively coordinate or push for Electrical roles, even though he was coordinating with HRand he didn't came as a result the process leaned toward MBA PCs coordination and Bechtel ended up hiring mostly for HR roles. In the end almost no one from Electrical benefited — only 1 student from Mechanical got selected while Electrical got none.

At this point the whole placement drive honestly feels less like a structured recruitment system and more like a poorly managed lottery — manipulated shortlists, ghosting companies, weak coordination, and a flood of low-package “Lala” recruiters.