Engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is looking to recruit around 1,100 graduate and post graduate engineer trainees in 2021 and deploy them across various business verticals, a top company official has said.

The company, through its ongoing virtual hiring process, has already made around 250 offers in the recent hiring season at premium education institutes such as IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT BHU, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, IIT Hyderabad and other IITs.

“L&T not only offers graduate and post graduate engineer trainees (GETs & PGETs) continuous learning opportunities and a growth path but also gives them immense satisfaction to work on projects that are high on the top of national or global pecking order,” company’s chief executive and managing director S. N. Subrahmanyan said.

In 2021, it is planning to hire 1,100 engineers and has already made offers to 250 IITians, he said.

Every year, the company recruits 1,100 plus engineers, 90 per cent of which belongs to premier institutes such as IITs, NITs, and top government engineering colleges, the company said.

The entire hiring process of L&T is digital and remote, including the testing process which is conducted with the help of remote proctoring tool which monitors the test based on 14 parameters. The platform used for hiring has been developed internally by the company.