Meet Madhur Rakheja, shopkeeper’s son hired for whopping package deal, not from IIT, NIT, IIM; his salary is… | Photo: LinkedIn/ Madhur Rakheja
Haryana man Madhur Rakheja rejected a number of job affords to lastly land an enormous package deal with the corporate he desired. Hailing from Ambala Cantonment, Rakheja is the son of a shopkeeper father and a homemaker mom. He is an engineering graduate from the distinguished University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun.
Madhur was hired by Bill Gates-founded tech big Microsoft for a whopping salary of Rs 50 lakh each year. This made him the thrill of the city. What made it much more particular was that he had rejected massive affords from corporations like Cognizant, Optum and Amazon earlier than getting the massive placement.
Rakheja did his education from SD Vidya School and Major RN Kapoor DAV Public School. He then joined UPES in 2018 to review pc science engineering. His specialisation was in oil and fuel informatics. During school, he did internships with Phemesoftware after which on the ecommerce behemoth Amazon as a Software Development Engineer.
In an interview, Madhur had complimented UPES for offering its college students with “awesome” placement alternatives. During campus placement, Madhur had a shortlist of corporations he needed to work for. He had utilized to corporations together with Infosys, Amazon, Cognizant, DE Shaw and Optum aside from Microsoft. He obtained good-looking affords from three of them: Microsoft, Amazon and Optum.
As per his LinkedIn profile, Madhur has been on the payroll of Microsoft as a full-time worker since August 2022. He is working within the Outlook crew as a software program engineer. He is engaged on a product ‘Outlook Lite’, a model of the e-mail app for low-end smartphones. He is at present based mostly in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
