As placement season approaches, here are the highest pay packages ever won by IITians

Early this year, a Bihar welder's son landed a Rs 2 crore package with Microsoft. An IIT Kharagpur student, he landed straight in the newspaper headlines and hit TV channels prime time coverage. But Vatsalysa Singh is not the first one to have earned himself a job with the IT giant. Yes, his success story is one of a kind. And so are the stories of other IIT students. The ones on whom IT and tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, Oracle have been raining offers for the past 2 years.

Every such news has only reinforced the belief that life is merry after entering into the IITs of the country. All it takes to get into one of them is persistent hardwork and dedication. Once the milestone achieved, what helps you land a job with a Facebook or Google? Well, these success stories will tell you what it needs to land a lucrative package with the biggest companies in the world. Read on: