KB Shyam

BENGALURU: A 22-year-student of International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) has landed a job at Google with an annual package of Rs 60 lakh.

KB Shyam completed his five-year dual degree, iMtech programme, from IIIT-B this year and will fly to Warsaw , Poland to join the internet giant this October.

Hailing from Chennai, Shyam had applied for the job in January. He had to clear an online interview, onsite interview at Munich and a team-matching process to decide his team in a span of five months to bag the dream job.

“My work area will be Google cloud platform,” said Shyam who is looking forward to the learning experience. His father KN Babu is a central government employee and mother RS Jayashree works for the Tamil Nadu government. His brother KB Siddharth is pursuing post-doc research in fuel cells in the United States.

Shyam, who scored 95.2% marks in class 12, said attending programming competitions helped him prepare for the Google tests. “My team – Aditya Paliwal and Simran Dokania – and I reached the world finals of ACM-ICPC, an inter-collegiate competition, twice,” he added. Every year, around 128 teams from across the globe participate in the contest, which is considered as the Olympics of programming competitions.

In 2018, Shyam had interned with Facebook in London at the end of the fourth year of his college. “Having good knowledge of computer science fundamentals and improving problem-solving skills will improve the chances of students who want to get into Google,” he added.

