Highlights
Divyang Yash Sonakia has got a job offer in Microsoft
Yash’s father is a shop operator in Indore
Yash is an expert in software coding
Yash has done B.Tech from an engineering college in Indore.
Indore, Yash Sonkia of Indore lost his eyesight completely at the age of eight due to a congenital disease of glaucoma, but this did not dim his dream of becoming a software engineer in the slightest. Now the giant IT company Microsoft has offered him an annual package of about Rs 47 lakh. An official of the city’s Shree GS Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) said on Tuesday that Sonakia, who completed her B.Tech degree in computer science in 2021 from this government-aided autonomous institute, will receive a grant of about Rs 47 lakh from Microsoft. Job package offer has been received.
25-year-old Sonakia said that accepting this offer, he is going to join the Bangalore office of this company as a software engineer soon. Although initially they have been asked to work from home. After his achievement, this differently-abled youth has come in the media headlines, but his path to reach this point was apparently not easy.
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Despite the disability, such studies
Yash Sonkia told that ‘After completing BTech with the help of special technology screenreader software, I started looking for a job. I learned coding and applied for a job in Microsoft. After online examination and interview, I have been selected for the post of software engineer in Microsoft. Sonkia’s father Yashpal runs a canteen in Sonkia town. He told that the very next day after the birth of his son, he came to know that he had a congenital disease of glaucoma, due to which he had very little light in his eyes. “My son lost his eyesight completely when he turned eight, but we didn’t give up because he wanted to become a software engineer,” he said.
Yashpal Sonakia told that he educated his brilliant son in a school for children with special needs till class V, but from class six he was admitted to a school for general children, where one of his sisters helped him, especially in maths and science. On the achievement of the son, the emotional father said, ‘Yash is my eldest son and I also had dreams associated with him. After many struggles, his dream of becoming a professional software engineer has finally come true.
Placement process started from April
Yash’s placement process started in the month of April. There were three rounds of offline interview followed by the final round online. Yash operates the entire computer through the keyboard with the help of screen reader software. He also does coding easily. Experts from Microsoft found that despite being disabled, Yash manages to coding easily and accurately like normal people.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : August 31, 2022, 08:53 IST
