Hyderabad: Landing a 6 lakh per annum (LPA) package job at the tech development centre of Swiss financial services giant UBS in Hyderabad was an impossible dream come true for 22-year-old Kavyasri Todeti from Peddapalli. Todeti, whose father works as a cashier in a private hotel, still can’t believe that she was hired as a site reliability engineer in a Fortune 500 company armed with just a BSc in MPCS (maths, physics, and computer science), that too over a year after graduating in 2023 from a Peddapalli college.
Delhi Election Results 2025
“I didn’t have a job as I was preparing for police constable exams but failed to make the cut. Then I chanced upon this opportunity at the Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) regional centre at Peddapalli. I was very nervous due to the one-year gap but was elated after I got selected after the training,” says Todeti, terming it nothing short of a miracle.
For 21-year-old Niharika Manchiryala, whose father is a truck driver in Nizamabad, bagging the role of a technical support specialist at UBS was a big deal, especially as she did her BSc in data science in a Nizamabad college.
Manchiryala and Todeti are among 63 youngsters from economically weaker and underserved sections of small-town Telangana that are living their dream in tech jobs in a multinational despite not having graduated from a top-rung college in the big city. They were hired at 6 LPA packages after a gruelling six-week skilling programme curated by TASK for UBS as part of its global talent accelerator programme that was rolled out in India with Hyderabad.
“We received 280 applications from diploma, degree, and BTech students from 15 districts such as Hanamkonda, Jagtial, Pedapalle, Nizamabad, Khammam, Suryapet, and Warangal, among others. We shortlisted 162 for the six-week training on software engineering, infrastructure engineering, technology support, and AI and data engineering to make them job-ready for UBS,” Shrikant Sinha, CEO, TASK, told TOI.
“After the training, 103 students were shortlisted for the HackerRank test and interviews, and 63, including 31 girls and 32 boys who showed proficiency in various IT technologies and good soft skills, were hired,” Sinha explained.
Sameer Chothani, Managing Director – Head of Technology Services India, UBS, said though initially they were targeting just 50 youth for the 12-month programme, they ended up taking 63 because of the good talent availability in Telangana. “Hyderabad is the second location globally for the innovative programme designed to enhance the skills and career prospects for underrepresented talent pools and develop their technology skills in the banking technology sector,” said Chothani, adding that the first global cohort was piloted in Stevenage in the UK in 2022 where 140 were trained and hired since. UBS, which already has around 2000 employees in operations and finance in Hyderabad, recently announced plans to hire 1800 techies for its new tech development centre in Hyderabad.
