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An online programming challenge gets 21-yr-old a Rs 1.2 cr Google job in UK

21-year-old engineering student from Mumbai, Abdullah Khan was spotted by Google on a website that hosts online programming challenges

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If you thought landing a job at top global companies like Google, Facebook was only possible through IITs or IIMs in India, the story of this 21-year-old Mumbai youth will make you rethink.

A final year engineering student of Shree LR Tiwari Engineering College, Abdullah Khan has been hired by Google at a package of Rs 1.2 crore per year, according to a report in the Times of India.

Khan will join Google's site reliability engineering team in September. 

The student, the report says, was spotted by the tech giant on a website that hosts online programming challenges. Khan then
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