British online food delivery firm begins campus hiring for India development centre in Hyderabad
The Hindu
Deliveroo has begun its university hiring programme in Hyderabad and plans to hire 200 engineers by year-end. Deliveroo India's VP and country head Sashi Somavarapu announced the start of their university hiring programme in Hyderabad, India's largest tech hub outside the U.K. Selected students will embark on a 6-month internship from January.
Deliveroo’s India Development Centre (IDC) in Hyderabad, the largest technology hub of the British online food delivery firm outside of the U.K., has begun its university hiring programme.
Some of the colleges Deliveroo plans to visit include IIIT-Hyderabad, NIT-Warangal, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) and Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, the firm said in a release on Monday.
“We are on track to exceed the 200 mark in terms of total employee strength in the country by [the] year end,” vice-president (engineering) and country head of Deliveroo India Sashi Somavarapu said, adding that they intend to hire a number of women employees in this round of hiring to ensure a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Selected students, before their journey as full-time employees next year, will embark on a six-month internship from January, wherein they will get an opportunity to work closely with the core engineering teams, he said.
The IDC here supports Deliveroo’s primary engineering operations in its home country. Over 200 engineers will be based out of this centre and serve as the core part of Deliveroo’s central technology organisation, having employees specialising in the field of backend engineering, analytics, platforms, automation and machine learning, the firm said.
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