Rise in pre-placement offers this year brings early cheer for IITians

Delhi, one of the premier older IITs, had 164 PPOs at the start of this week, as against 162 for the entire placement process last year

Going by pre-placement offer (PPO) trends so far at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), campus job hiring this year is a substantial improvement over the past two years.
 
In some cases, these offers — made by the recruiter after a student completes a summer internship project with a firm and returns to the campus — have nearly doubled. Some IIT campuses have also seen the share of student batches getting placed via PPOs having risen over the past year or two.
 
For instance, as on October 30, IIT-Hyderabad (IIT-H) has seen the number of PPOs nearly double