Google hires 24-year-old data engineer Shafiqa Iqbal through LinkedIn

Pakistani data engineer Shafiqa Iqbal got hired by Google through LinkedIn. She is now working for Google Poland’s Warsaw office. Originally from Sadiqabad, Punjab, Ms Shafiqa has done her graduation from Punjab University in 2010. Shafiqa Iqbal is also a Global Ambassador of the Women in Tech Network, a Big Data Engineer at Google, and a top-rated seller on Upwork. In addition, she is also skilled in back-end database migrations, back-end programming (including cloud solutions), and ETL pipelines. She intended to help organisations worldwide, she made scalable and dispersed solutions. Out of 1300 employees, she is the only Pakistani working at Google Office in Warsaw.

Shafiqa, a Punjab University graduate, was participating in open sourced projects like blogging about data engineering while working as a data engineer, which is a booming field globally. Shafiqa who studied at Punjab university recently participated in open source projects related to data engineering fields. With only 2.5 years of experience, she got a job message from google. After a series of interviews, she finally got a job at google. she was given the opportunity to work in Google Poland’s Warsaw office.

In an interview with YouTuber Junaid Akram aka GanjiSwag, Shafiqa’s Google office in Warsaw, Poland, she told that working with international organizations is a worthful experience. She also explained that here on google there are a lot of jobs available for Pakistanis, and they should access the google HR department over the internet. 

During the final interview with Google, Shafiqa Iqbal stated that the internet was down when she was being asked questions during the closing statements and that the meeting blacked out as a result. Though, the interviewer did not show any concern in this regard and said that no one should ever disparage their own capabilities.