The first cluster of the Final Placement process for the PGP class of 2023 was held today at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The firms that participated in Cluster 1 comprised of five cohorts – investment banking & markets, management consulting, niche consulting, cards and financial advisory and private equity, venture capital & asset management.
The entire placement process was conducted in hybrid mode. Companies had the convenience of conducting the process virtually or physically.
We saw a large pool of recruiters, with about 50 firms participating in the process. McKinsey and Company was the top recruiter with 18 offers, followed by Boston Consulting Group. Other prominent recruiters in the consulting domain included regular recruiters such as Bain & Company, Kearney, Oliver Wyman, Strategy& Middle East, Monitor Deloitte, Praxis Global Alliance, Arthur D Little, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG. Prominent recruiters in the Investment Banking and Markets space included Goldman Sachs, Avendus Capital, Arpwood Capital, Standard Chartered, HSBC, O3 Capital, and Credit Suisse. In the PE and VC domain, we saw the participation of firms like A91 Partners, Premji Invest, Pinpoint, Morgan Stanley (Real Estate), and American Express rolled out the maximum offers in the cards and financial advisory cohort.
As stated earlier, Clusters 2 and 3 will be held on 17th and 20th February, 2023 respectively.