IITs plan two-year campus recruitment break for 22 companies over withdrawn offers
The central placement body for India’s IITs plans to stop 22 companies from recruiting through campus placements for two seasons after more than 150 offers went unhonoured across 23 institutes. Oracle is among the companies expected to face the measure, while placement offices are helping affected graduates find alternatives.
India’s IITs plan to impose a two-year period of non-cooperation on 22 companies accused of failing to honour job offers made to graduating students, according to an Economic Times report cited in the source material. The proposed action follows more than 150 unfulfilled offers across 23 IITs. The decision was taken by the All India Placement Committee, the central body coordinating placement and internship guidelines, at a meeting held at IIT-Guwahati.
The committee is expected to inform the companies of the decision by September 30. Rather than describing the measure as a blacklist, the institutes plan to call it “non-cooperation”. The companies would not be considered for recruitment through IIT campus placements for the next two placement seasons.
The final list is still being compiled as individual institutes submit updated information. Some companies reportedly withdrew between 10 and 15 offers each. Oracle is among the companies expected to face the measure.
Campus sources cited in the report said the US software company had failed to honour about 40 offers made to IIT students. Oracle has also not approached the IITs for recruitment this year, according to John Jose, an associate professor at IIT-Guwahati. The company has cut thousands of jobs globally this year, including in India, while several startups are also reportedly included in the list of companies facing action.
IIT placement offices are circulating the CVs of affected students among existing recruiters and asking them to consider the candidates for available positions. Jose estimated that 20% to 30% of those affected had found jobs through such referrals, although the institutes do not have a complete count of graduates still seeking work. The number of companies facing action has risen from about 10 or 11 contacted by individual IITs last year to 22 this year.
The proposed response is intended both to assist affected students and to protect the reliability of offers made through the campus placement system.
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