guwahati placement season is on at the indian institute of technology guwahati since december and the maximum salary package that has been offered to a student till now is 119000 around rs 65 lakh the name of the company has been kept confidential due to an agreement with the institute however the maximum salary offered this year was less than last years which was around 150000 the placements are set to continue till april some of the most reputed companies from across the globe many of whose names feature in fortune 500 have lined up at the iitg campus for recruitments the placement drive for technology design and other courses were held at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels the average salary offered at the graduate level was rs 108 lakh per annum about 92 per cent of the b tech students were recruited and 100 per cent of the b design students were recruited international companies like goldman sachs google samsung paypal ebay schlumberger microsoft directi amazon adobe oracle morgan stanley and facebook visited the institute for recruitment the indian companies that came here for placements were tata motors flipkart nvidia reliance india ltd wipro infosys and hero motors we are expecting some more companies as the placement season will continue till april said lavanu konwar iitg public relations officer at the masters level which includes specialisations in technology and design the average salary offered was rs 94 lakh per annum the reason for the difference in the salary offered to graduate and postgraduate students is that companies prefer young graduates as it is easier to mould and train them explained konwar an earlier version of this story mistakenly mentioned maximum salary offered at iitguwahati placement as rs 5 crore we regret the error and thank our readers for pointing it out