India, June 29 -- A techie has caught the internet's attention after revealing how he dropped out of IIT Delhi and landed a job at Microsoft at just 19 years old. Taking to LinkedIn, Ashish Kumar Verma, who is now a software engineer at Microsoft, shared his unconventional career journey and said that he chose to leave one of India's most prestigious institutions because he already knew what he wanted to pursue.

"I got into one of the world's largest tech companies at the age of 19, before I could even legally drink, after dropping out of IIT Delhi," Ashish wrote in his LinkedIn post.

The 20-year-old explained his decision, saying that students broadly fall into 2 categories. The first group, according to him, enters college to explore ...