Placements 2007 @ Great Lakes, Chennai

[mkinra]

Originally Posted by baju_rbj

Were there any companies who were looking for a specific educational back ground and work ex(IT). Or they were flexible to pick people with diverse back grounds.

People with 1-2 yrs of work ex. willing to go to IT were taken in as Business Consultant/Business Analysts/Team Leads.

There were instances were in people were able to bring on table more knoweldge than their work ex. and hence were offered Senior Business Analsyst/Senior Buisness Consultants

[mkinra]

Originally Posted by Shankx23

Congrats first of all for the great placements!! Excellent Stats!!

A few Questions from my side...

1. How many candidates were placed through the lateral route and what was the criteria for laterals?. What is the no of people among the 154 students who opted for placements.

2. As i understand, being a lateral candidate myself and having seen placement season, the salaries are negogitated across the table and sealed since a lateral makes his choice based on this..then how is that you say most of the candidates being lateral, their salaries will be changed?

3. Can you elaborate on the Salary offered by Infy for the profile mentioned?..As it the same profile as a domain expert?.

4. Did British Petroleum come for a posting in India?..or did they come under the Banner of Castrol India Ltd?

5. Any Idea on the Salary and profile offered by Henkel India Ltd, VSNL, TCS,Tata Motors, Deloitte and ITC Infotech?

6. How many companies approximately purely recruited laterals from the batch?

Cheers
Shankar

1. Out of 162, 154 sat for placements.

2. When i say that their salaries would go up, it is becasue we have certain cos. visiting in the next two months. These cos. are looking for vert specific profiles like Assistant Vice Presidents, VP's etc. Hence the salary figures would go up as now these people would start negotiating from the offer they already have. This specifically is for people with more than 5 yrs of work ex.
3. No the salary offered by Infy is not same as the domain expert. Due to confidential reasons we cant disclose this figure (As co. has asked us not to do so)
4. They did come under the banner of Castrol, but recruited for British Petroleum also. The locations are not finalised.
5. Henkel offered MAnagement Trainees to freshers , VSNL offerd Marketing and Corporate Finance wiTata Motors offered a profile in PPC (for a person with 6 yrs work ex in manufacturing), ITC Infotech offered Consultants to people with 5 + yrs work ex, and Deloitte looked for CA's for tax consultancy
6. We have around 10 freshers, besides that every one is a lateral. Now cos. use different yardsticks for lateral definitions with some saying 12 months, and some 18 months. But the same cos. like lets say Infosys recruited for laterals as well as freshers.

[mkinra]

Originally Posted by manav_nitd

HI friends

I got work-ex of 20 months in Telecom (biggest telecom vendor in the world)
What were the profiles and salary offered to people with similar profile

Regards
Manav Mahajan

Hi Manav,

As i said in IT the profiles were SBA's/BA's/BC's/SBC's

In other fields you can chose Marketing, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, HR etc

[LadyLuck]

Were there any telecom recruiters? If yes the kind of profiles they have offered pls?

[manav_nitd]

HI friends

I got work-ex of 20 months in Telecom (biggest telecom vendor in the world)
What were the profiles and salary offered to people with similar profile

Regards
Manav Mahajan

Originally Posted by LadyLuck

Were there any telecom recruiters? If yes the kind of profiles they have offered pls?

[Shankx23]

Originally Posted by mkinra

1. Out of 162, 154 sat for placements.

4. They did come under the banner of Castrol, but recruited for British Petroleum also. The locations are not finalised.
6. We have around 10 freshers, besides that every one is a lateral. Now cos. use different yardsticks for lateral definitions with some saying 12 months, and some 18 months. But the same cos. like lets say Infosys recruited for laterals as well as freshers.

Ok so overall u mean only 10 freshers in the entire batch...of 162?...pure..without any work exp and rest have 12 months + right?......

btw if Castrol came ....why report BP..asking u this...since I knw the HR myself at Castrol India...and they maintain a stance that they only go to IIMS and ISB as BP..rest al places as Castrol..since its a policy decision..so kindly do check on this..unless the companies suddenly come on campus and decide otherwise to recruit for BP!!...No offence meant...but a purely rational question...

Cheers
Shankar

[mkinra]

Originally Posted by Shankx23

Ok so overall u mean only 10 freshers in the entire batch...of 162?...pure..without any work exp and rest have 12 months + right?......

btw if Castrol came ....why report BP..asking u this...since I knw the HR myself at Castrol India...and they maintain a stance that they only go to IIMS and ISB as BP..rest al places as Castrol..since its a policy decision..so kindly do check on this..unless the companies suddenly come on campus and decide otherwise to recruit for BP!!...No offence meant...but a purely rational question...

Cheers
Shankar

Hi Shankar

Castrol was the one which intially visited but they recruited for BP. Yes BP goes to only IIM's and ISB till last year, but Great Lakes has been added to that list this year.

They had to offer 6 profiles across India, out of which 3 were offered at Great Lakes.

They are yet to visit IIM's and ISB.

[mkinra]

Originally Posted by manav_nitd

HI friends

I got work-ex of 20 months in Telecom (biggest telecom vendor in the world)
What were the profiles and salary offered to people with similar profile

Regards
Manav Mahajan

As I said before it depends on the vertical/horizontal that you wish to enter. In case you want to go back to Telecom, we had Tejas Networks (India's biggest Network hardware manufacture) and VSNL/Tata Indicom, Frost and Sullivan (Telecom Consulting)visiting campus for specific telecom roles.

[mkinra]

Placement Report is up there on Great Lakes website.

Pls. check Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

[mkinra]

GD/PI Shortlist is available on the below mentioned link

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai