TCS creates record at VIT

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT company, has selected a whopping total of 1,075 students of VIT University after a very rigorous screening in the first slot for the 2009 June passing out batch. The interviews were conducted at VIT from June 2 to June 4.

TCS has thus created a world record by selecting the largest number of students from a single campus by any company anywhere in the world. In June 2007, TCS had selected 789 students from VIT and set a record at that time.

For this year 1,696 VIT students had appeared for the TCS online test and 1416 qualified, which is the highest percentage of pass for TCS from any campus across the country as on date. Students from BTech (EEE, E&I, Civil, Chemical and Mechanical) fared equally well along with those from IT branches. TCS also recruited 128 MS (Software Engineering) students out of the 166 students in the PG stream.

Well known IT giants like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Oracle etc., had visited VIT for placements in the last academic year and are expected later this year. VIT has topped the campus placements in the last 5 years throughout the country in the private sector.

VIT Chancellor, G Viswanathan announced the final selection list at Anna Auditorium, VIT University on June 4 amidst thunderous applause from the students. He thanked TCS CEO, Ramadorai and the TCS selection team headed by Antony Dinesh for their faith in the quality of VIT students.