Facebook has hired a student as its employee through a campus placement process in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. The student, Ankur Dahiya,for a pacakage of Rs 65 lakh per annum.
After trying - and failing - to recruit students from the institute last year, Facebook came back to the campus this year and chose 21-year-old Ankur Dahiya, a student of computer science engineering who hails from Rohtak.
After suceesfully vouching the post, Ankur said that, ever since he heard Facebook would come to recruit, he wanted to get in. It was a long-standing dream and his parents were obviously elated.
This is the first time Facebook has hired someone from IIT-Delhi. Earlier, last year they hired a student from IIT-Chennai. They hired only two students then, this time around they are ,ooking for more talent to become a part of the popular networking site which started its operations in the year 2004.
Dahiya will be placed in Palo Alto, California as a programmer after he finishes his course next year.
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