Son of shopkeeper grabs Rs 50 lakh job offer from Microsoft, rejected Amazon & Cognizant

Son of shopkeeper grabs Rs 50 lakh job offer from Microsoft, rejected Amazon & Cognizant

Last Updated Aug - 03 - 2022, 10:54 AM | Source : | Visitors : 92

New Delhi: Big job offers bagged by college graduates often make the headlines especially if they are at big names such as Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, and the likes. Besides, they are a sure-shot sign of proud and happy young employees and even prouder parents. Madhur Rakheja a BTech student from Haryana’s Ambala Cantonment has made his parents proud by bagging a lucrative job offer of Rs 50 lakh from Microsoft.

The son of a shopkeeper father and a homemaker mother even turned down offers from the likes of Amazon, Cognizant, and Optum before landing this job.

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Madhur Rakheja completed his BTech in computer science engineering with a specialization in oil and gas informatics from the UPES School of Computer Science. The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is a multidisciplinary university at Dehradun.

“I have always been interested in technology and its potential to transform and impact millions of lives around the globe and I always wanted to be a part of something huge like this,” Madhur says on why he chose such a unique specialization.

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Someone had suggested he go for upstream petroleum engineering but he wasn’t sure about it as a career path. He was sure however that he wanted to study computer science.

(Inputs from India Today)

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