IIT Hyderabad Student Bags ₹2.5 Crore Job Offer
Edward Nathan Varghese will join Optiver, a Netherlands-based global trading firm.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2026-01-05 06:49 GMT
Hyderabad: Edward Nathan Varghese (21), a final-year computer science engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), secured a Rs 2.5 crore job offer during the 2025 placement season, marking the highest package recorded by the institute since its establishment in 2008.
Edward will join Optiver, a Netherlands-based global trading firm, as a software engineer from July. The appointment followed the conversion of a two-month summer internship into a pre-placement offer (PPO).
According to IIT Hyderabad, the package is the largest ever offered to a student at the institute. The previous highest offer stood at around Rs 1 crore, recorded in 2017.
In a video shared by the IIT Hyderabad X account, Edward Nathan shared how the institution’s ecosystem helped him shape his journey and how he landed the job in an interaction with IIT–H Director Prof. B. S. Murty.
This was the first and only company he interviewed for during the placement process. Edward was born in Hyderabad and later schooled in Bengaluru from class 7 to 12. He scored AIR 1100 in JEE Main and AIR 558 in JEE Advanced in 2022. In the 2025 Common Admission Test, he achieved a CAT score of 99.96 percentile and ranked 120.