22-year-old Bengaluru student bags Rs 60 lakh annual package at Google

A 22-year-old student KB Shyam of IIIT-B (International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore) has landed a job at Google with a pay package of Rs 60 lakh per annum.

This year he accomplished his five-year dual degree, iMtech programme, from IIIT-B. To join the search engine giant he will fly to Warsaw, Poland this October

Shyam, from Chennai, had applied for the job in January. He had to clear an online interview, onsite interview at Munich and a team-matching process to decide his team in five months of time to bag the dream job.

Looking forward to the learning experience Shyam shared, "My work area will be Google cloud platform." His father KN Babu is a central government employee and mother RS Jayashree is employed with the Tamil Nadu government. His brother KB Siddharth is pursuing post-doc research in fuel cells in the United States.

Shyam scored 95.2% marks in class 12, shared attending programming competitions helped him prepare for the Google tests. "My team – Aditya Paliwal and Simran Dokania – and I reached the world finals of ACM-ICPC, an inter-collegiate competition, twice," he further added. Every year, about 128 teams worldwide participate in the contest, which is considered as the Olympics of programming competitions.

In 2018, at the end of the fourth year of his college, Shyam had interned with Facebook in London. He further added, "Having good knowledge of computer science fundamentals and improving problem-solving skills will improve the chances of students who want to get into Google."