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Similarly, NLUD and NUJS seem to have seen a slight dip, but nothing dramatically different from previous years.
The broader trend appears to be that Tier 1 firms were relatively more conservative this time, while Tier 2 firms, boutiques, and in-house teams expanded hiring. This is also reflecting in BO 2027 hiring, where a substantial chunk of PPOs seem to be coming from Tier 2 and boutique firms. So overall placement numbers across top NLUs have remained largely stable, with only minor variations (which is fairly normal year-to-year), even if the composition of recruiters has shifted somewhat from tier 1 to other players in the market.
Also, the current PPO numbers are not necessarily unprecedented. If you look through official placement reports of most tier 1 NLUs from previous years, the average PPO count is usually somewhere in the early to mid-20s range (or even lesser!). There is also still about a month left before Day Zero, and a significant number of students tend to get placed immediately before the process begins.
If you scroll through old threads on this website long enough, you’ll notice that almost every batch has had a similar round of concerns about the market. At the end of the day, all students and universities can really do is diversify risk instead of depending excessively on Tier 1 recruitment alone.
does not help that your country is busy bootlicking Trump's ego cause we have incompetent leaders who need to win votes on religion, or opposition who need reservations to win votes instead of competence.
Macroeconomic factors such as the Iran conflict, a depreciating rupee, and the outflow of foreign capital from Indian markets may have some bearing on hiring decisions. However, they do not seem sufficient to explain the abysmally low number of offers being extended. Nor does the AI explanation carry much weight; at least for now, no AI system is capable of meaningfully replacing an A0.
Which raises an obvious question: what the hell is happening?