TalentSprint Expands Its Women Engineers Program With Enhanced Support From Google

•First cohort of 100 received a resounding response from global tech companies

•Second cohort of 120 announced with bootcamps, scholarships, stipends, mentoring

•Program continues to identify talented women engineering students across India and equip and nurture them to become top-tier tech professionals

TalentSprint has announced the expansion of its Women Engineers (WE) Program, with enhanced support from Google. Building on the strong industry acceptance of the first cohort, the second cohort will select, train, and enable 120 talented women engineering students to become world-class software engineers. The program is open to first year women engineering students across India.

While women were pioneers in the early decades of programming, the participation of women in the global technology sector today stands at 26% (per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics). The WE program, offered by TalentSprint with support from Google, addresses this gender imbalance by grooming talented young women engineering students to advance and contribute to the field. Prioritising inclusion, the program places special focus on mentoring gifted women engineers from underprivileged and disadvantaged backgrounds.

The first cohort of 100 WE students, shortlisted and selected from a pool of 7200+ applicants, began their intensive training and mentoring sessions in June 2019, and have received a very encouraging response from the tech industry. Well before the completion of the program, WE students received 104 internships and full time offers from 54 companies, at compensation levels 86% above the market average as per Glassdoor. Details of the first cohort’s success are at https://we.talentsprint.com/.

Encouraged by the success of the first cohort, TalentSprint, supported by Google, is announcing the second WE cohort of 120 students to begin their training and mentoring program in March 2020. Aimed at a similar cohort of women students currently completing their first year of engineering studies, this year’s WE format has been expanded to include coding bootcamps, online classes, full scholarships, stipends, mentoring by Google engineers, hackathons, and projects over the next two years.

Applications are invited from eligible students and the selection will be done through a multi-stage nationwide assessment process. 

For information on how to apply, please visit: https://we.talentsprint.com/.

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