Abdullah Khan, 21, did never imagine that his part-time passion would turn to a serious professional offer. Khan, who loves to take-up programming challenges on various websites was on the radar of Google and found him apt to take up the job at Google London Office.
The offer made by Google provides a base salary of Rs. 54.5 lakh (£60,000) per annum, 15 percent bonus and stock options worth Rs. 58.9 lakh ($85,000) over four years.
Khan will take up a position as a member of Reliability engineering team at Google this September.
To give a background, Khan is currently perusing final year BE in Comp. Science specialization from Shree LR Tiwari Engineering College, Mira Road. The boy completed his schooling from Saudi Arabia and shifted his base then to Mumbai.
Khan, as a response to the offer letter, says that he is very happy about the offer and is eagerly looking forward to joining their team where the learning experience would be very great.
Here’s the comprehensive list of websites that host programming competitions
a) Top Coder
b) Coder Byte
c) CodeChef
d) Codewars
e) Leetcode