IIT boy
Abishek Pant from Pune lands Rs 2-crore dream job in Google
PUNE: City youth
Abhishek Pant, a final-year computer science student of Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has bagged a job with a whopping Rs 2-crore annual
package, including stock option, at Google Inc.
The 22-year-old, who finished a three-month internship at
Google California earlier this year, went through another rigorous round of
interviews before being absorbed into the design solutions cell. A city
topper in the CBSE Std X exams, Pant was born and brought up in the US before
his family shifted to Pune in 2006. He will now return to the US to pursue his
career.
When the family moved to Pune, his parents were quite
worried about how he would adapt to the Indian education system. Their main
challenge was to convince Pant about the need to sit through three-hour exams.
Pant, however, responded well to his parents' efforts and focused on his
studies. The result was evident when he secured 97.6% marks in Std X to make
his parents and his teachers at Delhi Public School proud. Pant said,
"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."
He had to initially clear two rounds of technical interviews
over the phone for the internship. "As part of the process, I had to do
coding in a Google document. I was further interviewed by the project manager.
I cleared the third interview as well, and my internship began in May." 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 company in September next
year.
He has not been assigned any project as yet, but will work with the design solutions team on the best way to solve problems raised by users. "I am looking forward to working on new and interesting engineering challenges, and to working with a smart and talented team," he said.
Besides work, Pant is also looking forward to the great variety of food on offer on the company's premises. He said, "Google offers employees tasty, healthy and free breakfast, lunch and dinner from a wide variety of cuisines such as American, Mexican, South American, Japanese and Italian. They even have a dedicated Indian cafeteria. One of my activities during the internship was to try out all of these cuisines."
Shantanu Das, assistant registrar at the career development centre, IIT-Kharagpur, said this pre-placement offer was a great opportunity for Pant. "We have had placements from Google and Microsoft this year, besides other placements in Amazon, Deutsche Bank and AdHoc, among others. There have been offers in the range of Rs 19 lakh to Rs 30 lakh per annum," Das added.
Sources in IIT-Kharagpur said that it would not be possible
to say whether the package offered to Pant was among the highest offered to
their students. They said the institute has stopped looking at the annual
package amounts students receive, as it tends to shift students' focus from
education to the remuneration instead.
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