4Photo© hindustantimes.comIIT Hyderabad student bags Rs 2.5 crore package, highest in institute history
When Edward Nathan Varghese walked into IIT Hyderabad as a computer science undergraduate, he did what thousands of students do — focused on coding, classes, and competitions. What he didn’t know then was that four years later, he would walk out with a Rs 2.5 crore job offer, the highest package ever recorded at IIT Hyderabad since the institute was founded in 2008.
The 21-year-old final-year student has received the offer from Optiver, a global trading firm based in the Netherlands. Edward will join the company as a software engineer in July, after converting a two-month summer internship into a pre-placement offer.
Edward’s journey to the record package did not involve multiple interviews or a long placement season. According to media reports, Optiver was the first and only company he interviewed with during placements.