Bengaluru: For the first time, Apple Inc has decided to come to an Indian engineering college with job offers. And after learning about the tech giant's presence at this year's campus recruitments, students at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-H) here have found a good reason to be elated with optimism.

“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.

“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 show case their skills before representatives of the firm,“ said T V Devi Prasad, head of placements at IIITH, adding that the placements for Apple are likely to be for its Hyderabad or Bengaluru facilities.

Apart from Apple, the other big companies that have registered with IIITH are Microsoft, Google, and Philips to name a few.

Close to 350 BTech, BE, MTech and MSc (research) students from the institute have so far registered for the placement drive that is set to be gin in December.

Officials said they observed a rise 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.