Apple to recruit Indian graduates through campus placement for first time

For the first time, Apple Inc is looking to recruit graduates of Indian engineering colleges through campus recruitment. The tech giant will be present at this year's campus recruitments much to the delight of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H) students in Hyderabad.

"We are elated that Apple has decided to come for our campus placements this year. We are not sure of the kind of profiles that the company will be offering. However, it will provide an opportunity to the graduating students to showcase their skills before representatives of the firm," said T V Devi Prasad, head of placements at IIITH.

He added that the placements for Apple are likely to be for its Hyderabad or Bengaluru facilities, The Times of India reported.

Besides Apple, big companies that will be at the campus include Microsoft, Google, and Philips.

Around 350 BTech, BE, MTech and MSc (research) students from the institute have so far registered for the placement drive that will kick off in December.

According to officials, they observed an increase in the number of companies hiring for artificial intelligence (AI), data science, automation and deep learning this placement season. "The companies will be holding technical interviews in which students who are well acquainted with Python (a computing language) will be preferred. Majority of them are offering jobs for product development and research and development profiles," said Prasad.

Apple's senior vice-president, Eddy Cue had recently said,"At the Apple level, India is an incredible opportunity... because what we're seeing is huge advancements in digitisation, bypassing older technologies to newer technologies and we think that we have a really great product that can help move things even faster,"  www.ibtimes.co.in reported.