Wednesday, November 25, 2015

IIT Kharagpur student Abhishek Pant bags Rs 2 Crore pay offer from Google



Google has offered a whopping Rs 2 crore per annum pay offer to Abhishek Pant, a student of Computer Science program at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. The pay offer is said to be the highest from Google and has broken all the placement records so far.

According to Times of India, Earlier this year, Abhishek Pant had done a three-month internship at Google California and successfully faced rigorous round of interviews before being appointed into the design solutions cell of the Google. Abhishek has tremendous academic records. He topped in the CBSE Std X exams with 97.6% marks.

Pant was born and brought up in the US before his family shifted to Pune in 2006. His parents were worried that how Pant would adjust himself in the extremely different education system when they moved to Pune. But Pant kept himself focused on studies and bagged a desirable job.

The journey from Pune to Kharagpur and Kharagpur to Google Mount View in California has been quite exciting. I had a great experience working there as an intern. A job offer is the icing on the cake, Pant told to TOI.

Pant cleared two rounds of technical interviews over the phone for the internship. At the end of the internship, Pant was offered the job, for which he had to go through another set of interviews. He will join the Google in September next year.

Recently, Chetan Kakkar, a student of Delhi Technology University bagged a job offer of $1,90,000 (Rs 1.25 crore approx) per annum from Google. Indian students are showing their potentials and getting better rewards for it too.

Interestingly, a query on popular question and answer website Quora asks how Chetan Kakkar managed to negotiate a salary of $1,90,000?

Heres the answer by another Google intern Ashish Kedia:
I just read a news article about Chetan Kakkars hiring. I dont know if he is on Quora.
I can certainly say with confidence that there was no negotiations. Do not believe media. The $190K package probably includes the sign on bonus, the relocation bonus and the some other allowances also. It is not the basic pay.

The media just bloats up the package without revealing the detail. And this is why engineering is often hyped. I totally urge all the people who actually got such offers to clear out the vagueness of the compensation that is being offered to them. Either keep it a secret or give full details.

Acknowledging the answer, Chetan Kakkar replied:
Ashish Kedia is correct, there were no negotiations. My package is probably exactly the same as everyone else who got an offer from Google Mountain View.
You can confirm that last year NSIT quoted similar figures.


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