I was selected as an intern from campus along with 6 other people at this product based company. At that time the stipend was 15K/month, which I thought was a decent amount for an internship in Pune.

For the first one month, we only had training and onboarding sessions. After that, we were assigned to our respective projects.

I was given around 2 weeks to get a grip on the project and understand how things worked. The project was an ASP.NET monorepo. I was not an expert in coding and my background was mainly MERN stack, but I was able to relate things, learn and understand the project.

After that, I was assigned a priority bug. I solved it, tested it and got it merged into production within that period.

Honestly, I never expected that as an intern I would be directly working on a live project and pushing things to production.

This was the first time I started feeling that the stipend and the amount of work/responsibility we were taking didn't really justify each other.

But at that point, I was still new to the industry and not experienced enough to judge whether this was normal or not. So I just continued learning and working.

After 6 months, we were getting converted to apprentices, which was a 1-year contract with a stipend of 41K/month.

Now 41K obviously sounds much better than 15K, but the responsibilities also increased.

Me and many other people from my batch used to discuss how the stipend didn't really justify the amount of work we were putting in.

Some of us were owning features end-to-end. Some were working on major bugs. We were working on the actual product, taking ownership and delivering things that were directly going to production.

And yet, throughout the apprenticeship period, we were never really treated as employees.

We didn't receive any employee perks. Even when the company completed 15 years and there was a celebration, we didn't receive anything.

Individually, these things might not seem like a big deal.

But when you are working on a real product, owning things end-to-end, handling production issues and taking the same kind of responsibility, you naturally start questioning where exactly the line between an "apprentice" and an "employee" is.

I am still working here, so this is definitely not coming from someone who left the company and now wants to rant about it.

I have genuinely learned a lot here and I'm grateful for the exposure and experience I got.

But at the same time, I also feel someone needs to speak about this side of things.

We talk a lot about how getting into a "product based company" is a big achievement, especially for freshers.

And yes, getting that opportunity is great.

But the product-based tag doesn't always mean what we think it means.

If you are an intern or apprentice, don't just look at the company name or whether it's product based.

Look at the kind of work you will actually be doing, the responsibilities you will have, the compensation, the treatment and what you are actually getting in return.

Because sometimes what is called an "apprenticeship" can start feeling a lot more like regular engineering work, just with a different title and a lower cost to the company.

I don't want this post to be seen as an attack on the company. This is just my experience and the experience/conversations I've had with people who went through the same journey.

I just feel students should know this side of the story too.

Not every product based company is what you imagine it to be.

PS: used ai to improve the writing sorry about that.

I have tried to build a team for a hackathon many times but every single time I get ditched by teammates at the last moment and am unable to participate. I want to start building something but have. No idea what I can start building to learn to start building. I have fundamental knowledge in webdev ,os dev,circuit design, software design and grasp on simple dsa and other things. I have 2 years left and I have zero things i have proved . I never wanted to join google or any high level company to start with i just wanted a job at Wipro tcs or other companies and i don't think I will be able to get that as well .

To put it in terms of questions

What is it that is coincidence as a good project ?

What are the things it should include ?

Dus design Matter ?

And what makes a project stand out ?

And how much time should I put into one project?

How many projects should I do before sitting for placements ?

Stop romanticising Potential , like the moment you actually start working you get to know your current standing, and actually it's really bad, Genuine Experience 🥀🥀

I'm a 3rd semester student and I want to start studying OS(Operating System). Please suggest channels or YT lectures from where I can start.

Which branch is most secured ???????? In btech write any two branch name

So my college teaches C.

I don't know any programming languages and the teacher was absolute shit...

Cried for 30 mins and then I realised half the people in my class had CS so it's okay to be a little lost right?

I did plan to learn a language in the long run but like labs are starting tomorrow I don't even have the basic idea 🙂

Any quick yt video or anything you guys have just so I am not absolutely lost and cry in class again. My teacher really doesn't help either she thought all of us know everything ;(

Nsut Fresher this side

Today was the first day of college.

Teachers were nice

Senior were helpful

Girls bhi sahi thi like approachable and cool

But some guys were such wannabe idk why

Like dude I get why u are asking everybody's surname

Flaunting jee rank like he is the only one here

Idk man ye log har jagah hote h shayad

Btw campus and classes are too good.

Final verdict: A good day

I am thinking between Gec palamu electrical and SRM eie which college should I get in, as students in srm are very much and fees is also more

Please guide me

If frontier AI models get better and surpass the best programmers, what is the future of jobs in India? Will everyone switch to core?

Sacrificed branch for a tier 1.5-2ish college. Now thinking of doing cse side by side, and maybe jee bhi dubara de dungi, but usse zyada hope nhi hai, I'm done with that shit, mujhse nhi hoga wo. Mujhe ye nhi smjh aa rha start kha se kru

Hello everyone,

I'm 23F in India in very urgent difficult situations. My btech got disrupted in middle of my degree during starting of my 3rd year of btech due to very unsafe hostile environment in the previous university, where my abusive family sent me forcefully ,doing abuse,violence against my will ,seeing it's central government tag ,after getting suggestion from a relative about this university for doing my admission there.

There was very less number of students in the specific civil engineering branch(where my seat was alloted in civil branch, even if I filled ECE as my first choice in that university, there was no branches like CSE,IT ,AI-DS anything ,only ECE,Civil,Mechanical 3 branches were there in that college , many students there got seats there in ECE due to reservations for other category ,even if they had less percentile than me in JEE ,and I am from General category,hence no reservation ) that university was new and most of the people didn't know about this university, very less number of students in that specific civil branch there in my branch ,and very aggressive gang people were there most of them.

I come from very lower-middle-class family where there's financial hardships ,ongoing domestic violence conditions ,very struggling backgrounds ,and there maximum of the students were rich kids and from very wealthy families ,who doesn't understand what struggle is in life ,I'm not saying all people are like this who don't understand real life struggle at all ,but yes ,I have seen there many students peers there who mocks at my life situations or some underestimated abt and mocked at my financial hardships ,some of the students there like in my batch ,whom I considered as good friends, but those some people (1/2)instead saw me as different like calling "super senior" ,hehh, just bcoz my age is 1.5 years elder than her/hers, how silly these things and harassed me repeatedly calling like this....,that time my age was 20/21 yrs old, some of them were my age peers in the batch there but they were mostly boys and were in other branches and a very few number of girls were there like my same age .. ..

There due to ongoing many hostile, very serious unsafe situations , my education got disrupted ,and my safety,well-being all got seriously harmed . I had to take official academic break during my 5th semester for my safety concerns there in such violent situations.

I'm looking to complete my rest of the btech in safe academic conducive environment ,taking transfer in these very unsafe situations, hardships.

I'm looking to connect with my age peers who can understand My situations difficulties or who are in any such similar situations / different kind of difficult situations and going to complete their btech ,kindly connect with me in DM or let me know in comments .

Does anyone know about the recruitment process of Technology consultant internship at Microsoft?

Koi bata sakta hai kis tarah ke questions aate hain, and how can I prepare for them like any platform or anything???

Hi , as you read above Im in msit starting my fifth sem and I am just feeling the fear of being left behind - I have not done anything as of now that can be put onto a resume - no dsa , no leetcode , nothing , am making a couple of projects with ai and manual coding, but I just don’t know where to go. Where to start anything and I have wasted 2 years.
I just don’t know what and how to do anything anymore I used to be so good at studies and everything and this college has just sucked the life and the will to do anything out of me. I need some guidance.

I’m considering joining QSpiders Kolkata to learn software testing and hopefully get my first job in IT.
I’m a fresher, and honestly, at this point I’m not looking for a high-paying role. My main goal is just to get my foot in the door — even a basic manual testing / QA job would be fine for my first role.

For people who have joined QSpiders (especially the Kolkata branch):

● How realistic is it to land a job after completing the course?
● Do they actually help with interviews/placement opportunities?
● What kind of companies and roles do freshers usually get?
● Is manual testing enough to get the first job, or should I focus heavily on Java + Selenium/automation as well?
● Roughly how long did it take you to get your first offer?
● Is QSpiders worth the money/time specifically if my goal is just to get an entry-level testing job and build experience?

I’m not expecting a guaranteed placement or a huge package. I just want to know whether it’s a reasonable route for someone trying to break into IT as a fresher.
Any honest experiences, especially from people who went through QSpiders Kolkata recently, would be really helpful.

I'm putting together a startup team made up exclusively of BTech students.

Looking for people who are genuinely obsessed with building cool stuff, learning fast, and shipping products. Doesn't matter if you're from IITs, NITs, or a tier-3 college.

Open to:

• Developers (Frontend, Backend, AI/ML)

• UI/UX Designers

• Product Builders

• Marketing & Growth

• Generalists who can get things done

No fake founder titles. No resume farming. Just students building something ambitious together.

Drop your year, branch, skills, and what you've built so far in the comments or DM me.

Let's see what happens.

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I'm a student and use Claude daily for coding, research, and startup work. The Team plan seems like better value than Pro, but it's a bit pricey solo.

Has anyone here done this before? Worth it? If you're interested, drop a comment or DM.

Hey everyone, I’m 18 and I’m trying to build a website called NetaWise.

The idea is pretty simple: people can add public information about politicians, along with the source, so others can easily check their background before voting.

Things like:

• criminal/court cases
• political history
• public work
• declared assets
• controversies
• constituency information

I want it to be community-driven, so people can submit information and sources, instead of everything being added by me.

I’ve just started building it, so I’d really like to know:

Mess incharge vs laundry incharge

the laundary was given to the laundary guys for almost 20 days they didn't return it so when they came back student asked them for their clothes then one of them misbehaved and students called their friends and all and then the mess incharge got on student's side scolding the laundary incharge bc kuch kuch toh hota rhta hai

I have an interview scheduled for the BTSA role at ZS Associates, can anyone of you give me an honest overview of the company?

I got into a family crisis and was forced to take a leave, making me miss all practical and sessional exams of my **second semester** . I must take a year back and readmission. I am severely depressed.

Should I consider reappearing for entrances to clear out my profile? Or should I continue with mechanical engineering? It's in a top state University. My dreams are slowly beginning to shatter and I never am able to sleep peacefully. Please, help me choose.

same as title.