2 BITS Pilani students grabbed highest pay package of Rs. 1.44 crore

Two students from BITS Pilani have grabbed bulky pay packages of Rs. 1.44 crore per annum from the network and services giant Google. This is the highest offer made by Google to any BITS Pilani student till so far. The next best offer of Rs. 1.3 crore per annum was grabbed by 12 IIT-Kanpur students recently.

Thoppilan Romal Devassy and Kannan Sunder are from Mumbai and pursuing their seventh semester of the computer science branch in BITS Pilani and have created history by grabbing a whopping offer of $ 2,35000 per annum from Google.

Sunder from Rajasthan, said, “No doubt, this is unimaginable for me to get placed in the most desired and named company of the world. My innings with Google will begin in the summer of 2014 in Mount View, US.” Google has selected another student from BITS, but till now it has not rolled out offer letter to him.

Over 100 students have appeared in the interview that included seven technical rounds including one written exam which also took place in the campus and five rounds of technical interview related to subject knowledge, which were conducted in Bangalore. Facebook, the social media giant has also participated in the placement process for the third consecutive year and selected three students. Among the highest Indian placement offers made so far are from LinkedIn and Goldman Sachs Strategies, where each offered above Rs. 28 lakh per annum.

Chief placement coordinator, Mani Shankar Dasgupta, said, “More than 100 companies have visited so far to recruit from 327 undergraduate engineering (BE) students and 180 masters (ME) students in the first semester. About 90% students have been placed.”

Janat Shah, Director, IIM-Udaipur said the placement session has just started and will last till this batch’s convocation will be held in March. Shah said, “More than 100 companies have visited so far to recruit from 327 undergraduate engineering (BE) students and 180 masters (ME) students in the first semester. About 90% students have been placed.” Engineering colleges affiliated to RTU are also receiving a good response from the market post recession. IT giants like Infosys, Wipro and Forbes 500 in financial, real estate and consultancy are visiting campuses and hiring students in bulk.