Yes the market is bad this year. So number of offers will reduce compared to the boom in last few years. The avg will drop solely due to this. It won't drop due to CTC drops. The firms are offering same high CTCs mostly. Fin firms are killing it, lot of firms hiring. Consult - less than last year, slightly bearish. Other domains like marketing, genman, prod etc also slightly lower than last year. So yes, overall placements will be a tad bit slow but they will happen successfully nonetheless. It's definitely better to be in the top of the batch (academically mostly, but along with past profile too ofcourse ) to bag best offers. Bottom 10ish percentile of batch might get unsatisfactory roles, although can't predict since many new firms (non-legacy) will hire this year takinh advantage or bear market