{"id":739,"date":"2013-11-22T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2013-11-22T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:20:25","slug":"google-hires-three-students-iit-madras-annual-package-rs-92-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/google-hires-three-students-iit-madras-annual-package-rs-92-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":""Google Hires Three Students from IIT-Madras at an Annual Package of Rs 92 Lakh""},"content":{"rendered":"

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IIT-Madras is hogging the limelight after its three proud students have successfully secured lucrative job offers at Internet giant Google.<\/p>\n

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The three students, Guru Prakash, Santosh Kumar N, and Kavin Karthik, are believed to have grabbed the highest salary packages<\/p>\n

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ever offered to any students in the recent history of the institution.<\/p>\n

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According to the reports, the three students from the institution have been offered a whopping annual salary package of $145,000<\/p>\n

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(approx. Rs 92 lakh). The very fortunate students received their job offers on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Guru Prakash on Monday expressed his gratitude to work with Google, which is quite famous among its employees for its overwhelming<\/p>\n

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work ethics.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI was one among the few matriculation-school students at IIT-M and always thought life there would be difficult. But it was<\/p>\n

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not so,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Prakash said.<\/p>\n

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The three students from IIT-Madras were initially recruited by Google as interns for only 3 months in Bangalore. They were interviewed<\/p>\n

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again by Google right after completion of their internship with the company.<\/p>\n

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\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI could not finish solving many of the questions but they observe your approach, not the solution,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Prakash, who originally<\/p>\n

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belongs to Coimbatore.Santosh Kumar N. believes that his tryst with Google helped him acknowledge his interest in programming.<\/p>\n

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\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI always thought electrical engineering was my interest area and almost shifted to the branch,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Kumar, who was also a part<\/p>\n

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of NIT before he realized his passion and shifted to IIT-M.<\/p>\n

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\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAt Google in Bangalore, I would finish a 10-week project in six weeks, and then pick projects of my choice to while away the extra time,<\/p>\n

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\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he added.While talking about the great working environment at Google, Karthik said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThey have something called \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153Thank God it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Friday,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/p>\n

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when no one works after lunch on Fridays.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There are games, regular outings and excursions. When a company does so much for you,<\/p>\n

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employees put in their best.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

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IIT-Madras is hogging the limelight after its three proud students have successfully secured lucrative job offers at Internet giant Google. The three students, Guru Prakash, Santosh Kumar N, and Kavin Karthik, are believed to have grabbed the highest salary packages ever offered to any students in the recent history of the institution. According to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","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\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}