With engineering institutes, including IITs, staring at a particularly tough placement season this year, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Samsung, Reliance, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Deutsche Bank, Tata Projects, Navi, Uniorbit, ICICI Bank, EXL, NPCL, Intel, and TSMC were among companies were took part in the placement season at IIT Kanpur this year.