Success stories

A 21-year-old B-Tech student of IIT Indore bagged a job with Google at an annual salary package of Rs. 1.7 crore during campus placements. Gaurav Agarwal said he had taken an online test at IIT-I for getting employed with Google. After passing the test, he was called at the company’s office in Gurgaon for an interview which he cleared.

20-year-old Jaipur girl Aastha Agarwal was a third-year computer science student in 2014 when she bagged a Rs 2 crore package from Facebook. She was doing her training with Facebook in May-June in California, when she caught everyone's eye and later got selected during pre-placement.

A Delhi student, Chetan Kakkar made a new record for international placement for Delhi Technological University (DTU) by receiving an offer of Rs 1.27 crore approx per annum. Chetan was a final year student of DTU's information technology department. He will be joining Google, California after he completes his study in 2016.

A 21-year old computer science student, Ashutosh Agarwal who belongs to IIT-Patna was offered Rs 1.8 cr salary package by the tech giant. It was the highest package ever offered here. He was in his 7th semester when the offer was made and he was selected after completing three months internship at Google New York. Ashutosh was given the offer after rigorous steps of interviews and telephonic rounds. He will work for Google office at North American states.

Four students of computer science department of IIT-Kanpur managed to bag a whopping Rs 1.5 crores per annum as the salary package in 2015. The offer was given by tech giant Oracle. This hefty salary included perks and allowances. The hefty package offered included 1.5-1.75 lakh US dollar as take away salary plus Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP means company's share) and bonus. Similarly 5 students from IIT Bombay had received an offer from Facebook for a Rs. 1.42 crore pay package back in 2014.

A welder's son from Bihar - Vatsalysa Singh Chauhan - in his final year at IIT Kharagpur, was offered a job by Microsoft with an annual starting salary of Rs 1 crore.He hails from Khagariya village of Bihar where his father Chandra Kant Singh Chauhan runs a small welding workshop.