Kolkata/West Bengal: He got opportunities from big companies like Amazon and Google . Because the package offered by them could not satisfy him he didn’t join . But finally accepted the job offered by Facebook. The package is of the amount of Rs 1.8 crore per annum . This is the highest pay package offered to any student of the university this year.
We are talking about Bikash Mondal, a student of the Jadavpur University in Kolkata who has secured a job at Facebook with this amount of annual pay . He is a fourth-year computer science and engineering student at Jabalpur University.
He was been offered jobs by Amazon and Google but he didn’t choose. “I will join Facebook in September. Before accepting this job, I got offers from Google and Amazon. I thought choosing Facebook would be the best as the pay package offered by them was high,” Bikash said.
Cracking interviews with Facebook, Google and Amazon is not an easy job and speaking about what had helped him, Bisakh told Indian Express, “In the past two years during the Covid-19 pandemic, I got the opportunity to do internships at several organisations and gather knowledge outside my curriculum studies. This has helped me crack the interviews.”
Mondal belongs to a modest family in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. His mother Shibani is an anganwadi worker. She said, “It is a matter of great pride for us.” She also added that her son has always been a “meritorious student”.
As per the IE report, this is the highest pay package a student from JU received this year. Previously, nine JU students from various engineering departments had secured overseas jobs with pay packages exceeding ₹1 crore. Samita Bhattacharya, placement officer at JU, pointed out, “This is the first time since the pandemic that students have got such a large number of international offers.”
As of June 2022 Meta (Facebook) has a market cap of $562.19 Billion. This makes Meta (Facebook) the world’s 7th most valuable company by market cap according to data published by companies market cap. The market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the total market value of a publicly-traded company’s outstanding shares and is commonly used to measure how much a company is worth.
By Nilanchal Naik
