PUNE: City youth Abishek Pant, a final-year computer science
student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has bagged a job
with a whopping Rs 2-crore annual package, including stock option, at Google
Inc.
The 22-year-old, who finished a three-month internship at
Google California earlier this year, went through another rigorous round of
interviews before being absorbed into the design solutions cell.
A city topper in the CBSE Std X exams, Pant was born and
brought up in the US before his family shifted to Pune in 2006. He will now
return to the US to pursue his career.
When the family moved to Pune, his parents were quite
worried about how he would adapt to the Indian education system. Their main
challenge was to convince Pant about the need to sit through three-hour exams.
Pant, however, responded well to his parents' efforts and focused on his
studies. The result was evident when he secured 97.6% marks in Std X to make
his parents and his teachers at Delhi Public School proud.
Pant said, "The journey from Pune to Kharagpur and
Kharagpur to Google Mount View in California has been quite exciting. I had a
great experience working there as an intern. A job offer is the icing on the
cake."
He had to initially clear two rounds of technical interviews
over the phone for the internship. "As part of the process, I had to do
coding in a Google document. I was further interviewed by the project manager.
I cleared the third interview as well, and my internship began in May."
At the end of the internship, Pant was offered the job, for
which he had to go through another set of interviews. He will join the company
in September next year.
He has not been assigned any project as yet, but will work
with the design solutions team on the best way to solve problems raised by
users. "I am looking forward to working on new and interesting engineering
challenges, and to working with a smart and talented team," he said. Besides
work, Pant is also looking forward to the great variety of food on offer on the
company's premises. He said, "Google offers employees tasty, healthy and
free breakfast, lunch and dinner from a wide variety of cuisines such as
American, Mexican, South American, Japanese and Italian. They even have a
dedicated Indian cafeteria. One of my activities during the internship was to
try out all of these cuisines."
