American company offered 33 lakhs to Nagpur boy, withdrew after seeing age

Nagpur, July 23: Vedanta Devkate, 15, a resident of Nagpur, was browsing Instagram on his mother's old laptop. Then he got a link to a website development competition. By clicking on this, Vedanta joined the competition. Vedanta wrote 2,066 lines of code in two days. After which he got a job offer from an American company. Salary package: was around Rs 33 lakh annually. But the age of Vedanta came in the way. The company took the job back from him.


Vedanta was selected after 1000 people

According to the news of Times of India, New Jersey's advertising agency had offered Vedanta to join its HRD team. His job was to manage and hire other coders. But when the company came to know that the person whom he has given the job, his age is only 15 years, then he withdrew the offer letter of the job. He was selected among 1000 contestants from around the world.

American company offered 33 lakhs to Nagpur boy, withdrew after seeing age

The company, taking back the job, suggested to Vedanta that he should first complete his studies, after that he should contact me for the job. We are impressed by your experience, professionalism and approach, the firm wrote to Vedanta. The team enjoyed your presentation and values ​​your insight into our strategy. Vedanta has already created a website.


Vedanta has made its own website

Vedanta had developed a website, animeeditor.com, which provides people an option to upload videos like YouTube. In this website, blogs, vlogs, chatbots and videos can be seen on a single platform. Vedanta told that, I have used HTML and JavaScript language and Virtual Studio Code (2022) to make this website.


American company offered 33 lakhs to Nagpur boy, withdrew after seeing age

Vedanta won a gold medal at a science exhibition by designing a radar system model at his school Narayan E-Techno Wathoda. Vedanta's father Rajesh and mother Ashwini are assistant professors in engineering colleges in Nagpur. Vedant's father keeps his laptop in the locker and mobile phone in the car. He is afraid that Vedanta may give up his studies due to all this.

American company offered 33 lakhs to Nagpur boy, withdrew after seeing age

learned coding in lockdown

Vedanta said that I had attended about two dozen tutorial sessions on software development, coding and techniques like Python during the lockdown on my mother's laptop. Vedanta worked on this slow and old laptop to develop the website. Now his success is surprising people. However, now Vedant's father Rajesh is now thinking of getting a new laptop for him. So that it is easy for his son to learn.


Vedanta couldn't believe seeing the offer letter

Rajesh told that, we had no idea that it was a call from my son's school. Who told us about this job offer. Vedanta had received an email from a US company and was confused about it. He told his teachers and they were stunned when the offer letter turned out to be correct. He helped my son write back to the company. Told them that he is only 15 years old and studying in class 10th.