'Acche Din' for e-commerce: Flipkart, Amazon recruit at IIM Lucknow

The college achieved 100% placement for the batch 2016-18

The e-commerce job offers to the latest graduating batch (2016-18) of the IIM-Lucknow (IIM-L) by e-commerce marquees, including Flipkart and Amazon, increased from 8 per cent last year to 12 per cent this year, thus clocking hike of almost 35 per cent year-on-year.

This is a far cry from the situation 1-2 years back, when top B-schools, including the IIMs had downgraded e-commerce recruiters, including Flipkart over deferred placements owing to the economic slowdown coupled with consolidation and restructuring in the domestic e-commerce space.

Some of the reputed firms in the IT/e-Commerce/Technology sectors, which recruited at IIM-L this year were