IIT-Hyderabad student bags Rs 1.2-crore package with Google

HYDERABAD: Sneha Reddy, who graduated from IIT-Hyderabad this year, has bagged a whopping Rs 1.2-crore pay package (per annum) from Google, the highest received by a student in the IIT-H’s history since it was established in 2008.


The highest package was offered to a student until May was Rs 40 lakh and the average package stood at Rs 11.5 lakh.

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Sneha Reddy, who has been selected for Google Intelligence project, had received the medal under ‘Excellence in Academics and Co-curricular activities’ from President Ram Nath Kovind.

The Computer Science Graduate from IIT Hyderabad, who has got four gold medals, completed four rounds of online test which Google conducted recently and finally got the opportunity. She was due to visit the US for the final round, but as she was unable to go there, Google did the final round also for her through online on the basis of her excellence in previous rounds.

Surprisingly, the topper of her batch, Ibrahim Dalal, has bagged Rs 35 lakh (per annum_ package. Dalal too has received the medal for scoring best CGPA this year.

A native of Vikarabad, Sneha Reddy's father Sudhakar works in a software firm in Hyderabad. IIT faculty were all praise for the student, who made the institution proud. Sneha Reddy said that IIT-Hyderabad has encouraged its students towards experiments and "helped her a lot getting selected for Google's project".

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