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This IIT boy from Pune bags 2-crore offer from Google

Now, Pune boy Abishek Pant, a final-year computer science student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has bagged an offer of Rs 2-crore annual package at Google Inc.

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The 22-year-old boy finished his three-month internship at Google California earlier in 2015. He went through another round of interview before being wrapped up into the design solutions cell. Pant, a student of Delhi Public School, scored 97.6% marks in Class X.

Pant was born and raised in the United States before his family shifted base to Pune in 2006. “My experience working inGoogle as an intern was just great”. “A job offer is the icing on the cake”, Pant told the Times of India.

Abhishek cleared two rounds of interviews over the phone for the internship. I cleared the third interview as well, and my internship began in May, ” says Abhishek.

Though Pant has not been assigned any project as yet, but word is that he will work in design solutions section: it deals solving users’ problems.

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Pant said, “A job offer from Google is exciting”. He is expected to join the company by September 2016. “They even have a dedicated Indian cafeteria”. There have been placements at Google and Microsoft, apart from that students were placed in Amazon, Deutsche Bank and AdHoc, among others. The average compensation package ranged between Rs 19 lakh and Rs 30 lakh for PPOs. Last year’s highest pre-placement offer (PPO) at IIT Kharagpur of Rs 1.5 crore also came from Google.

Pune IITian bags 2crore Google job