A Rs 1.4 crore job offer usually comes with a story about all-nighters and burnout. Karumuru Priyanka Reddy’s story looks nothing like that.
The offer that made her the top campus recruit
Priyanka, a Computer Science and Engineering student at GITAM School of Technology in Hyderabad, was named the university’s highest campus recruit this year at its Achievers’ Day event. Her LinkedIn profile lists her current employer as Amazon Web Services, based in the United Kingdom.
She’s not the only one making headlines from Hyderabad’s graduate circuit this year either. Her story follows a wave of similar viral posts, including one about a 23-year-old Woxsen University graduate who built a Rs 20 crore agribusiness startup within a year of finishing his degree, with online users crediting his execution and vision over his age.
The advice that shaped her approach
Priyanka’s father, a senior manager at IBM, gave her a simple piece of advice early on: stop chasing marks, and focus on actually learning the subject. He told her the marks and the knowledge would follow naturally once she did that.
That advice appears to have stuck. She started preparing from her first year of college, but not with the intensity most students associate with placement prep. She reportedly put in just one to two hours a day, consistently, working through data structures and algorithms and practicing on platforms like LeetCode and GeeksforGeeks.
A quieter alternative to burnout culture
The post framed her approach as a deliberate counter to the high-pressure prep culture that dominates campus placements. It pointed out that students actually have plenty of time during their BTech years, but many waste it chasing distractions instead, and don’t figure out what they actually want until their final year.
Her guiding principle, getting just one per cent better every day, is the opposite of the cram-heavy, sleep-deprived grind many students associate with landing a big-ticket offer.
The takeaway
Priyanka’s story is quickly becoming another data point in an ongoing conversation among Indian students: whether steady, low-intensity consistency can actually out-perform last-minute, high-stress preparation. For now, her Rs 1.4 crore offer is making a pretty strong case for the former.
