An online programming challenge gets 21-yr-old a Rs 1.2 cr Google job in UK

If you thought landing a job at top global companies like Google, Facebook was only possible through IITs or IIMs in India, the story of this 21-year-old Mumbai youth will make you rethink.

A final year engineering student of Shree LR Tiwari Engineering College, Abdullah Khan has been hired by Google at a package of Rs 1.2 crore per year, according to a report in the Times of India.

Khan will join Google’s site reliability engineering team in September.

The student, the report says, was spotted by the tech giant on a website that hosts online programming challenges. Khan then had to go through a few rounds of online interviews and a final screening at Google’s office in London.