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BTech from IIIT Jabalpur to Software Engineer at Google: Samriddhi Sharma's Journey
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News18•12-10-2026, 14:56
BTech from IIIT Jabalpur to Software Engineer at Google: Samriddhi Sharma's Journey
- •Samriddhi Sharma pursued Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIIT Jabalpur.
- •She secured prestigious internships at Google through the STEP program in 2024 and 2025.
- •During college, she played a key role in the core team of the BitByte programming club.
- •She won the HackCBS 7.0 hackathon and became a Google Women Techmakers Engineering Fellow.
- •She advises youth not to stress over long-term career blueprints but to focus on the present.
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Samriddhi Sharma earned her engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIIT Jabalpur before securing a software engineering position at Google.
She started by securing her first internship in 2024 through Google's 'STEP' program, followed by a second internship in 2025 where she worked on automated data pipelines and real-time dashboards before joining full-time.
She achieved a brilliant victory in the 'HackCBS 7.0' hackathon, was a finalist in the 'Google Girl Hackathon', and became a scholar of the 'Google Women Techmakers Engineering Fellowship'.
