BTech student and son of a shopkeeper bags Rs 50 lakh job offer from Microsoft after rejecting Amazon, Cognizant
India Today
Madhur Rakheja, a BTech student of UPES, a multidisciplinary university at Dehra Dun, has bagged a Rs 50 lakh job offer from Microsoft. The son of a shopkeeper, Madhur achieved this feat after rejecting offers from the likes of Amazon and Cognizant.
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.
We got talking to Madhur to know more about his feat and what he can expect at Microsoft.
Madhur Rakheja completed his BTech in computer science engineering with specialisation 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 specialisation.
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.
“Then I got to know that there's a specialisation in oil and gas informatics in computer science. So, I chose this one,” he says.
