IIT Student makes into Google with Rs. 2 Crore Salary

Updated on: Wednesday, November 25, 2015

iit Abishek Pant, a student of Computer Science programme at Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kharagpur has broken all placement records on receiving a job offer of Rs 2 crore per annum from Google, say newspaper reports.

The 22 year old IIT student who hails from Pune had to go through several interview rounds before making it to the design solutions cell at Google. Pant will be joining the organisation in September, 2016. The final year IIT student had interned with Google, California for a period of three months, earlier this year.

Born and brought up in US, the CBSE Class 10 topper was brought to India in the year 2006 when his family decided to shift to Pune. Initially, his family seemed quite worried about him adapting to the Indian education system. But the boy who was studying in Delhi Public School, responded well and obtained 97.6 per cent in his Class 10 Board Exams.

Abhishek has also surpassed Chetan Kakkar, who was offered a package of Rs 1.27 crore per annum from Google. Chetan, a final year student of DTU's Information Technology department will be joining Google, California with a remuneration of Rs 1,25,74,200 ($1,90,000) after the completion of his programme in the year 2016.

IIT Student makes into Google with Rs. 2 Crore Salary

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