HYDERABAD: The 2018 batch of graduates from IIIT Hyderabad have got lucrative global job offers. While some of the B Tech students who are gearing up for their convocation this week plan to pursue higher studies and research, 16 other students have been picked up by international firms. These students in their 20s will head to Europe for taking up their jobs.
Apart from the placement season usually in December where companies visit campus for recruitment, students also apply directly to companies they are interested in without involving the institute.
"In addition to Facebook and Google, companies like Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg and Booking.com have made lucrative offers this year. Most students are under a confidentiality contract restricting them from revealing their final pay packages," a IIIT official said.
"There are perks, there are stock options in some cases, and the pay package itself is decent for a fresher. It's more than one and half times the average salary in London," a student said.
Pravalikka Etoori, a 22-year-old from the dual degree program (B.Tech in Computer Science and MS in Computational Linguistics) previously interned with Google in Bengaluru. She admits that many factors were taken into account while accepting the offer from Goldman Sachs. "The main deciding factor was the type of work I'd be doing in the role I was being offered. Then, the brand value of Goldman Sachs and location being London have weighed in on the decision," she said.
Hemanth Veeranki dream of working for Google from a very young age. He took his first step towards this dream by bagging a highly-coveted internship at Google, Hyderabad. After completing his summer internship there, he applied for a full-time conversion and accepted the role he was offered. That of a software engineer in the
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team based out of London. "Very simplistically put, the job of the SRE team is to maintain infrastructure on which Google public services are run," Hemanth said. Hemanth is from Pamuru in Andhra Pradesh and had secured a spot on the Dean's Merit List in all the four years. He was also part of a team that participated in the ACM-ICPC regional round at Amritpuri in 2016.
A similar conversion offer from the Google London office where he was interning at, was offered to 22-year-old Ayush Mishra. "I was a Site Reliability Engineering
Intern and my role now is that of a Software Engineer in the same team," he said.
In the case of Abhinav AggarwaI, an internship at Google, Mountain View headquarters in summer 2017 was extended into a full time offer from Google London subsequently. "For the conversion process, you are expected to give two additional interviews toward the end of your internship," he said.
Abhinav Aggarwal wasa software engineering intern in the Search Ads
Quality Infrastructure team who finished his first project earlier than the deadline, thus gaining an opportunity to work on an additional project. The inclusion in the Dean's Merit list for all the semesters, participation in ICPC onsite regionals 2016 and 2017, and qualifying for the
Codechef Snackdown onsite finals in 2015, certainly helped in getting noticed.
Another student Mrinal Dhar has got into Bloomberg. "I've wanted to work in Europe for some time now and I'm very interested in some of the products that Bloomberg has created," said Mrinal Dhar, graduate in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, explaining why he applied to the company. Demonstrating his inclination towards Information and Network Security from the start, in 2017, he completed Google Summer of Code while working on a security related project with Rocket Chat.
Mrinal Dhar has also interned at
CERN, Switzerland in the Computer Security team. He led a team named PingChat, which was among the top winners at AngelHack 2017's Worldwide hack-a-thon competition: Global Demo Day which took place in San Francisco.
Vatika Harlalka, who is a dual degree student with a B.Tech in Computer Science with M.S. by Research in Computational Natural Sciences will get into Facebook. She applied for a job directly through the Facebook portal. She has been offered the role of a software developer.
Another student will be in Amsterdam taking up a job with Booking.com. Roopa Nahar had to undergo one Hacker rank coding test, then three rounds of telephonic and Skype calls, followed by three onsite rounds in Amsterdam before bagging this offer. While she starts as a Graduate Software Developer, after nine months, she will be given the title of Software Developer.
