IIT final yr student lands Rs 1.8-crore job @ Google
Isha Jain
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Lucknow
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Son of entrepreneur parents, final-year computer science student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Lucknow boy Ashutosh Agarwal bagged a plum job with an annual package of Rs 1.80 crore at Google Inc.Presently in his 7th semester, the 21year-old, who finished a three-month internship at Google New York earlier this year went through another rigorous round of interviews, including telephonic, before he was absorbed by Google. He will work in one of the North American states, after he completes engineering. The placement is off-campus.
Ashutosh said the journey from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) to Google Inc has been exciting. “I had a great experience working there as an intern and the job offer is a dream come true. But this is certainly not the end, not the destination. I am very young and have a long way to go,'' Ashutosh told TOI over phone from Patna.
Delighted with Ashutosh's achievement, his parents, father Gopal Krishna Agarwal and mother Alka Agarwal said, “We are happy about his success. He is jovial, makes people happy and keeps cracking jokes among family and friends.'' Prior to his internship, Ashutosh had another stint at Google. This was at the end of his 4th semester. “After I finished second year exams, I was trying to do something.Fortunately , I got opportunity at GSoC, a global programme that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. For three months, I worked from home and added a new feature to an existing programming framework,'' he said.
After he completed his internship in August, Google offered him a full-time job.“Since it was off-campus placement, not many came to know. When I got the offer letter, my friends and I partied,'' said Ashutosh. An above average student, Ashutosh completed his schooling from Seth M R Jaipuria and secured 96.4% in class 10 and 95% in class XII.
IITs will not reveal salary figures from this season
Country's premier technical institute, the IITs have decided not to reveal any pay package figures from this placement season following complaints of peer and parental pressure on students. “Disclosing salaries puts unnecessary pressure on students. It kickstarts peer pressure as well as parental and societal pressure. People forget that only very few of them actually get those fat pay packages of over a crore. The minimum and average salaries are much less,“ said Prof Sudhirkumar Barai, Chairman, Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur.
Source: Times of India, 3-12-2015
Ashutosh said the journey from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) to Google Inc has been exciting. “I had a great experience working there as an intern and the job offer is a dream come true. But this is certainly not the end, not the destination. I am very young and have a long way to go,'' Ashutosh told TOI over phone from Patna.
Delighted with Ashutosh's achievement, his parents, father Gopal Krishna Agarwal and mother Alka Agarwal said, “We are happy about his success. He is jovial, makes people happy and keeps cracking jokes among family and friends.'' Prior to his internship, Ashutosh had another stint at Google. This was at the end of his 4th semester. “After I finished second year exams, I was trying to do something.Fortunately , I got opportunity at GSoC, a global programme that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. For three months, I worked from home and added a new feature to an existing programming framework,'' he said.
After he completed his internship in August, Google offered him a full-time job.“Since it was off-campus placement, not many came to know. When I got the offer letter, my friends and I partied,'' said Ashutosh. An above average student, Ashutosh completed his schooling from Seth M R Jaipuria and secured 96.4% in class 10 and 95% in class XII.
IITs will not reveal salary figures from this season
Country's premier technical institute, the IITs have decided not to reveal any pay package figures from this placement season following complaints of peer and parental pressure on students. “Disclosing salaries puts unnecessary pressure on students. It kickstarts peer pressure as well as parental and societal pressure. People forget that only very few of them actually get those fat pay packages of over a crore. The minimum and average salaries are much less,“ said Prof Sudhirkumar Barai, Chairman, Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur.
Source: Times of India, 3-12-2015
