this year to understand what they were looking for while evaluating offers we had to give competitive salaries because by days 5 and 6 the best talent is gone thats how campus hiring works he said zomato raised 37 million from sequoia capital and existing investor infoedge valuing the delhibased startup at over 150 million rs 900 crore one of the older startups snapdeal hired 40 students from across iits last year and its cofounder kunal bahl a wharton grad said the ecommerce firm is looking to pick another 50 students this year for us the fit with the cultural and business needs are more important than the number we hire the idea is to keep building a pipeline of future leaders who will bring new thoughts and abilities bhal said this year at iitkanpur 1820 startups are slotted for week 1 and another 14 for the following week at iitmadras four startups have been slotted for the first week with salaries in the range of rs 811 lakh by the end of day 3 flipkart had hired eight students companies have been slotted on the basis of their salary packages and job profiles said v babu advisor training placement at iitm it goes to show that these startups have graduated said a member of the placement team at iitkharagpur which has also been playing host to a bevy of startups