Mumbai youth got a job of 1.2 crores at Google office in London

It is true that Abdullah Khan (21) could not clear the IIT entrance, but he has made an offer that many IITians would envy. Earlier this week, Khan got a job at the Google office in London, for a package of 1.2 crore rupees. The average salary offered to a graduate of a non-IIT engineering college in the city is around Rs 4 lakh per anum.

Khan, a student at Shree LR Tiwari Engineering College, Mira Road, was called for a Google interview based on his profile on a site that hosts competitive programming challenges.

After some online interviews, earlier this month Khan was asked to show up for the final screening at Google's office in London.

His six-figure package includes the base salary of Rs 54.5 lakh (£ 60,000) per year, a bonus of 15 per cent and stock options worth Rs 58.9 lakh ($ 85,000) for four years. Khan, who is pursuing his last year BE (Computer Science), will join the reliability engineering team at Google's site in September.

An email from a Google official in November last year mentioned that they had seen Khan's profile on the programming site and said they were looking for people for locations across Europe.

Khan said that he did not expect such an offer when he participated in competitions on that site. "I used to participate as it was fun. I did not even know that firms check programmers' profiles on such sites. I showed the email to my friend who knew someone who had received such an email in the past. I am looking forward to joining their team. It will be an amazing learning experience for me," said Khan. The coding enthusiast did his education in Saudi Arabia and moved to Mumbai only after Class XII.