Hey! I am a 4th year student in VIT who has been through the placements procedure in VIT. Your CGPA isn’t bad, it’s decent. But I would advise you to increase it as much as you can. If possible make it 8.5. Because there will be a number of Super Dream companies you won’t be able to sit for. This is because VIT has a huge number of students and the only way to restrict a number of students that can sit for a particular company is by CGPA.
Also, this time we had students with 8.5+ CGPA coming early and they were only eligible for companies like: Microsoft, PayPal, Deshaw, Morgan Stanley. Even core companies for ECE like Cisco keeps a cut off of 8.5 CGPA. These are just a small number of companies as compared to the number of super dream companies that come in VIT.
Lastly, I don’t mean to scare you. There a huge number of super dream companies that keep a cut off of 7 CGPA. You always have a chance of sitting for them and getting placed there. And in VIT the systems keep changing. Some companies that had kept a 9 CGPA cut off last year kept a 8.5 one this year.