Facebook Hires IIIT Student For Whopping 60 Lakhs


Bangalore: A final year B Tech student of IIIT- A has apparently been offered a whopping 60 lakh per annum to work for the social networking giant, Facebook. The company also hired another student, whose package is not disclosed to media yet, reports Times Of India.

Google had also participated in the campus recruitment and it hired a candidate as student ambassador of Google. Many other big companies too took part, which include, Microsoft, Amazon, Walmart, Yahoo, Verizon , IBM and others. The campus recruitments have placed the institution which has Institute of National Importance (INI) status, on the international IT map.

The institute director, MD Tiwari said "Ankit Gupta and Yogesh Sharma have been recruited by the Facebook. Both are B Tech final year students. Their batch-mate Divanshu Garg has been chosen as the Google Student Ambassador to represent IIIT-A for the upcoming academic year."

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