{"id":6387,"date":"2014-12-10T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2014-12-10T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:42:21","slug":"facebook-offers-iit-bombay-girl-pay-packet-rs-2-1-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/facebook-offers-iit-bombay-girl-pay-packet-rs-2-1-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook offers IIT Bombay Girl a Pay Packet of Rs 2.1 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bbbbb.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6388 alignleft\" alt=\"bbbbb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bbbbb.png\" width=\"391\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><b>New Delhi: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153<\/b>Where do you envision yourself when you are 20?\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Jaipur girl Aastha Agrawal, a fourth-year Computer Science student at IIT-Bombay has set the targets higher for not just the girls at IIT but boy IITians as well. She has received a pre-placement offer (PPO) of Rs 2 crore plus \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 from everyone\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s heartthrob Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Aastha did her third-year internship at Facebook in May-June 2014 at its headquarters in California. She was working as a software developer there. The social networking site picked her up on the basis of her performance during the internship. She is due to join the job in October 2015.<br \/>\nRight now, Aastha is at home for winter vacations.<\/p>\n<p>Aastha\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s father Ashok Agrawal is in a government job. He is an Executive Engineer at Rajasthan Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (RVPNL). Her elder sister Pavitra is a Chemical Engineer too. Pavitra graduated from IIT Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Aastha, the star of the family, secured 7<sup>th<\/sup> rank in Rajasthan in National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) at school won the silver medal at the International Junior Science Olympiad in 2009. In 2009, she signed up as a user on Facebook too.<\/p>\n<p>Aastha had secured All India Rank (AIR) 90 in IIT JEE 2011 and had secured 98% in Class 12 board exams.<\/p>\n<p>Aastha had also secured a job offer from Google \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 the only other company she had tried for during IIT campus placements. But she chose Facebook as it has less employees and has a startup kind of culture and probably, it would be easier to make an impact there.<\/p>\n<p>An alumni of St. Xavier\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s School at Jaipur, Aastha shared that she has not met Mark Zuckerberg yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Where do you envision yourself when you are 20?\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Jaipur girl Aastha Agrawal, a fourth-year Computer Science student at IIT-Bombay has set the targets higher for not just the girls at IIT but boy IITians as well. She has received a pre-placement offer (PPO) of Rs 2 crore plus \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 from everyone\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}