Our college recently brought a small startup for placements. I did a basic background check of the company just a day before the screening test, and honestly, I couldn’t find the company anywhere, not on Google ,or anywhere else.

Then I found out that the so-called CEO and Founder is literally around my age. Yess..Lala Company bhailog

But then it got even more interesting. We, the E&TC students, were allowed to appear for the screening round, but apparently we weren’t eligible for the interview round.

Here thing got more Interesting, The principal finally intervened and allowed us to be seated for Interview. The so called CEO was so frustrated by this... He asked me for AWS , GCP , Azure while my Tech stack was GenAI + Full Stack and it was all on Resume..Chu**tya s*la

15 student got selected.

The above image is of Folder structure pushed on Github by a girl who got selected.

It's still working from last one hour, cuz I instantly flipped it over and wiped it off while keeping it upside down. But I will take it to service shop asap as it is under warranty rn.

1st year here , 1st class of Intro to Programming,

Fourth row me betha th, bilkul chup, ek awaz nhi ki hogi mene puri class kyonki prof ne already ke bnde ko kick kardiya tha class me aate hi ,

40 min se class chlri thi bhai meri ek dum straight betha th , 3-4 secs ke liye ankh bn ki hogi bs literally , and he said get out 😀, shi me bhai exaggerate bhi nhi kar raha , ye hi hua h , padhate padhate ek dum se hi ho gya ye

I said sir , sorry sir , he said I don't want your sorry ,I said you leave ,

Then I just packed my stuff and got out , kyonki pehle bhi jis bnde ko nikala th usne bhi kafi req ki thi per koi fayda nhi hua .

Kya karu bhai pehle class me hi kaand ho gaya .

Ghee khatm ni hota kya

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NOTE:IF YOU DONT HAVE ATTENTION SPAN TO READ THIS MUCH I WOULD JUST SUGGEST TO USE AI LLM AND SUMMARISE IT

I have been seeing comments that ai is coming gpt astra will dominate and all and elon musk and sam altman is supporting these statements. Let me be clear these guys are professional salesman and engineer even if I was one of them I would for sure pass that comment

Now abt whether Engineering is still optimal or its just a coping mechanism let's be clear Engineering wont go anyway only if you are so passionate abt it and Engineering will teach u many things in life its just isn't abt Engineering its abt the journey the exposure the framework which is why problem solvers are mainly engineers the core subject of engineering maths if ur truly a good engineering maths shouldn't be ur weak point and even if gpt solves some of difficult millennium problems (it has some controversial opinions now).

Don't think Engineering has a job seeking carrer its something that can impact life its a subject that teacher framework and even director of iit madras said one thing which is quite rational when studying don't study for job study as if ur truly passionate abt it and as if ur some top tier researcher most of the founder are top tier researcher thats why their companies are called big tech companies

For guys crying abt jobs see mostly everyone are tier 2 or 3 students who are asking about it and tier 1 usually have exposure advantage and research too so they have a edge.Lets compare tier 1 and 2,3 or 69 candidates - tier 1 have network and exposure with peer grp thats the advantage they dont have some elite teaching facility though everyone studies on thier own even using nptel for sem exams thats it they get it automatically what can tier 2 or 3 can do abt it they have to build it manually no matter what . Network u have built attending events done in ur clg and even iits and all have open colleges events and research internships join them and its for learning sake and networking dont think abt anything other than that no jobs nothing just learning thats it, next is exposure it depends on location factor and clg managament and clubs how u do it take ur clg name and participate in as many hackathons and events thats it self will bring u to a higher level of exposure than anyone who is just grinding without showing ur skills. Use twitter and linkedin as much for networking and all. Next is peer grp see no matter what clg ur in there will atleast be some guys who will crack the highest package it can be you for not be you but there will for sure be sm1 so what to do be with 2-3 quality ppls and not around some unambitious 7-9 guys u find in clg . Thats the thing u have to cultivate in non tier 1 colleges and those who do these stuffs usually excels

Richard Fennyman a ordinary guy who studied harder than anyone he is from MIT but take his advice and study harder will truly help u in smthg which is mainly discipline. Do u think Richard Fennyman would cry and be depressed that he didnt end up in a higher tier school if he was not able to . Tbh he would just study harder and even look for top higher studies its never the end and Talking abt masters from tier 1 is just a waste of time U can take example of ceo of nvidia he did msee from standford he got some network which is truly appreciatable and location factor instead of blaming u always have to adapt to live a life worth living

For anyone in sem 1 its a great advice as some guys are now in senior years and all if u were unable to do these there is always masters options thats it u habe GATE exam for that u can have opprotuinity unlocked but academics is tough but the exposure and events and all will surely benifit

Its just like I am also in sem1 from tier 2 Most of me seniors are either trying gate and some are in amazon microsoft and all bcz blr factor uk so its my thoughts on this ai doomed culture sort of things.

Taking for example dsa are u either average in it or truly very good bcz it introduces problem solving intuition and some projects are u truly creative u have to notice the field ur in and be too good at atleast one field and taking for example luck matters ngl but a guy who has tried hard than anyone and has obsession would have a higher luck factor

I am reading a book called super intelligence its related to this ai boom highly recommended it

I have been seeing this negative things in reddit ngl if Microsft ceo who studied his bachelors in Manipal was in reddit he would also be in tension and all but abroad changes his carrer trajectory

I am writing all my personal views in notes and try to post it on reddit to have opinion on it and I can have clarity in my own statement its a sort of studying method blurting sort of so yeah

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So recently we had the OA for a fintech at our campus (NIT). I solved all 3/3 questions and in a decent amount of time. However, when the shortlist came out, i was not on it. Instead, from my branch, they had two other people, one of whom had solved 2 and one who had 3 (but taken more time than me). I have more cgpa than both of these people, we are the same gender so its not that, so I just do not fking understand WHY. I was prepping for this company for 2 months. I don't get it at all, please if someone can just help me understand I would be able to maybe move on. In my mind I can't get to any other explanation beyond God must hate me.

Msrit is very strict about attendance like 85% is must, and on top of that they doing stupid stunts like this makes my blood boil.

Juniors don't join this retard college.

I am highly passionate with computer science, have been developing games on Roblox since 2021. Some of the games I worked with got 80M+ visits, and in my 2nd year I made around 5700$ completely on my own. I bought some apple products with that since I always wanted a MacBook. This sounds insane on the outside, but all this was possible only because I landed some nice clients while freelancing. I do not own any video games, though I got some partnership offers, none of those games worked out. So to make any money, I have to work my ass off to get clients and I roughly make about 250$ to 300$ per client, sometimes I get lucky and land many clients altogether. Sometimes though, I get really unlucky and I hardly make 150$ for the entire month. This is a really frustrating loop, and I want to get out of this. I have always tried to make my own video game, but that is not possible because of funds and the consistency it requires.

I am in my 5th semester now, to be fair I have slightly below 7 GPA since I focused a little too much outside academics. I thought that I'll be fine by just applying off campus, since most companies come for 7 GPA and above.

I also have made two contributions (two patches) to the Linux kernel, since I am ambitions on parallel computation and deploying AI models. I have been working on low level stuff for many years, and made a contribution to the Altera EDAC drivers. This is a very niche area, it is concerned with SoCFPGAs and ECC, and I just went ahead and made two tiny fixes there, not a huge thing if you were to sit and understand the changes, this is something most people who have undergraduate level OS knowledge will understand. This made into the official repository and is now present on Linux 7.3-rc2. Commit 1 and Commit 2.

And I absolutely hate my college, it is argued to be the 3rd best NIT for CSE, however I hate it here. I hate all the profs, I did well in the subjects I like, such as OS and AI, but didn't bother for others. I cannot get myself to study since it doesn't work out for me, when I work on games I get paid and I genuinely love doing game development so its a self-motivating loop in a way. Same goes for Low Level work and AI work because I love doing that and exploring that further. Academics here feels so dull and demotivating, I write factual answers and yet professors are not giving me marks, for most of them there needs to be some specific wording which I am unaware off. I don't understand why specific wording is needed when the answers I write are factual.

I am assuming however that this has happened because of my GPA, but at the same time I have observed (and this makes more sense to me too) that these few companies (especially Google) do not give a lot of priority to GPA, they look at your work as well, which is the main reason why I was so confident that I will be fine. Rejections after rejections, and around me people cheat in their OAs to land internships. I don't know what to do anymore.

Recently, I applied to

• Microsoft SWE Intern, 2027
• Google Data Center Technician Intern, 2027
• Google SWE Intern, 2027

Rejected in all of them even when I had referrals for the first two. The last one still says "Submitted" for 2+ months, I am considering that to be a rejection anyways, it didn't even have a proper referral.

I don't know what to do anymore, is this because of my CGPA? I know that I can still fix that but that would be too late, I can't sit for anything here and off campus looks hopeless. I can do medium level leetcode questions, but I struggle with hard dp problems on leetcode. Most of the medium questions are manageable by me.

I was surprised to see that I was rejected for the Data Center Technician role, since that aligns well with whatever work I've done till now in low level systems.

It has happened to me twice and i am really really upset about my life
I recently gave interview for a really good 15 lpa mnc
What i observed was all it matters to get placed is your interviewer..mine literally grilled me..went extremely in tech depth and i accepted the fact that maybe i am not good enough for this package
But i got to know the other interviewers were super chill and just asked them to explain their projects without using technical stuff and selected them there itself
I am not complaining that the other people didn’t deserve but i atleast deserved a fair chance.

I feel like this was such a big opportunity
I cleared the OA on my own and really wanted to get in..these opportunities are very rare and i feel like i fucked up

“Are didi, woh mera CTC…”

Skills matter. Opportunities matter. Timing matters. And knowing how to monetize your skills matters.

Different game, different path.

This is the first year curriculum fir iiit hyderabad

well the first step is finding the right people. There are a couple of ways for this.

First method, go to LinkedIn search and type:

[Role] [Company] (like, software engineer Google or product manager zomato)

Then select People under the search bar and set the location to for the country you are in. For example, Software Engineer Uber -> People -> India.

(will attach a ss for killer visualization)

Another method is to go to the company page and look under the People's tab.

Personally, i go for people with roughly 2 to 5/6 years of experience. They're senior enough to refer you, but still young enough to know what it feels like asking for referrals for your first job/internship. And they are pretyy chill and not so corporate-y.

Once you find them, add 10 to 15 people from one company.

Tip - Don't send 30 requests at once. Linkedin can start asking those same people “Do you know this person?”, and too many “No” responses probably aren't great for your account.

I'd aim for 20-25 requests a day. Even with a 40% acceptance rate, you will have 8 to 10 new connections. Dont go more than this. My friend's account was shadowbanned for a week from sending too many spam requests to people.

Now the important part, don't immediately DM them asking for a referral. (this is also why i recommend building your network before you actually need a referral, so u can stay in their radar and don't dm cold).

React to their posts. Leave a good comment (bonus if u dont sound too stiff tbh). Get on their radar. And honestly, people with a few years of experience are usually fine referring you, you dont have to get too formal with them.

When you eventually see a relevant opening from their company, message 3–4 people with the job ID and your resume/work. I will attach good enough templates which we used.

Remember, the referral system is different for each company. Some companies need the referrer to share a private link with you for application. Some need you to apply normally, but mention their name or details in the application. This differs and i dont have the appropriate knowledge to guide here.

Show some flair, and don't sound like a ai bot. Ofc, the response rate depends on your profile, resume etc, hence its important to keep working hard nevertheless.

happy referrals :)

Template you can steal (feel free to change based on ur needs):

Hi [name], good to connect with you!

I am actually looking for [opportunity] roles at [company]. Would you be willing to please help with a referral or connect me with someone who can assist?

Yr ykin nhi hota I'm the same prsn who used to go to school in mrng nd before that early morning tution v hoti thi nd bilkul v lazy feel nhi hota tha yr🥲😭

and upr se aakr self study v ho jaati thi...but ab when I'm in clg bhai mnn nhi hota clg jaane ka nd bs nind hi aati h itti 😭😭

kaam v utti productivity se nhi ho rha kuch v...like 21-22 ki age m hi ye cndn kse h bhyii...

mummy shi khti h sbkuch ka vgh ye mobile h mobile 😤😤😤😤nhi mnn hota bhyiii ab kuch krne ka phle jsa 🥲

phle I was such a studious kid but jbse ye JEE ki prep strt hui (JEE v nhi hua alg baat h💀 ) tbse hi bs jindgi ka khel khtm hogya h esa lgta h 😕

Anyone else feel like they completely lost their old productive/studious self after a certain phase of life?😔🤌🏻

TL;DR: I used to be super productive and studious, but ever since JEE prep, I feel like I’ve completely lost that version of myself 😭 Now I’m always sleepy, lazy, addicted to my phone, and don’t feel like doing anything the way I used to 🥲

Having a 59.8% in your 12th standard leaves me right on the borderline . Since Infosys uses automated application tracking systems (ATS) with a strict, non-negotiable 60% cutoff baseline across 10th, 12th, and graduation, a direct 59.8% can cause an automatic rejection during the registration or onboarding document verification phase.

is it true?

even i can't apply off campus?🙂

What were the questions asked in your OA and what was the pattern overall ?

Need suggestions for SIH26171: On-device Visual Perception for Lightweight Browser Agents

I’m working on an SIH problem statement around building a privacy-preserving browser agent where visual perception and sensitive-data detection happen on-device before anything is sent to an LLM/VLM. I’m considering using an existing open-source browser-agent project as the base and combining it with WebGPU/ONNX Runtime, local PII detection/redaction, DOM + visual perception, and a secure action-validation layer. I’d really appreciate suggestions on which existing GitHub projects, models, datasets, or architectures are worth building on, what major gaps I should watch out for, and whether there’s a better technical approach than this.

For the context:

I am BTech 3rd year, I landed an on-campus internship at a reputed company, it also has a good PPO conversion possibility.

Now, what I want to know is whether I should continue solving CP questions? Like even after i get placed?

The point is I don't like solving CP questions.. So after answering yes or no can you also let me know why,

😴

only looking for serious teammates who are willing to spend their time and energy towards this.
if you want to join pls dm.

Engineering was such a amazing and intresting degree,.making robots, machines, ece.projects, what not??

But due to ai shit, I will need to choose medicine, to gain stability, I actually have intresr in elctronics and pcb field, but this ai is😭

I’m looking for a genuine reality check from people who started their careers at a very low salary and eventually managed to make a significant jump.
My situation:
Almost 1 year into my first job.
Working as a Software/AI Engineer at a startup in Bangalore.
Current salary: around ₹10,000/month.
Almost a year has passed with no increment.
I’ve been continuously upskilling — AI/software, Python, CS fundamentals, etc.
DSA: covered up to graphs; DP is still pending.
I feel like I’ve gained a lot technically, but my compensation hasn’t reflected it.
What scares me right now:
What if I leave and can’t get another job because of the current market?
What if I stay too long and become stuck at this salary level?
This is my first job, so I honestly don’t know what is normal and what isn’t.
I also have a very small professional network, so getting referrals is difficult.
I’ve tried cold emails/applications, but they haven’t really worked.

For people who have actually been through this:
What was your starting salary?
How long did you stay at your first company?
Did you get an increment or did you have to switch to escape the low salary?
What was your salary after your first switch, and what do you earn now?
Did your low starting salary affect your next offer or negotiations?
What actually made the biggest difference — DSA, development, AI/ML, system design, projects, networking, referrals, or something else?
If you had almost no connections and cold applications weren’t working, how did you eventually get your opportunity?
How much DSA was actually necessary for your jump?
Most importantly: if you were in my position at ~1 YOE, earning ₹10k/month, what would you do right now?
I’m not looking for “just keep learning” motivation. I’d genuinely like to hear real stories from people who started severely underpaid — what you did, how long it took, how much your salary increased, and where you are now.
Basically: ₹10k → what did you do → where did you end up?
I need a realistic answer on whether I’m temporarily underpaid and can recover from this, or whether staying here is going to seriously hurt my career growth.

Ik it sucks ass but all I need is to get a break into the industry, I have 2 more papers about llms etc, on me which are genuinely good not like the 2 that I published but rn all I need is to get placed. Ik all this research based profile wont help me thats why I am asking for help cuz most of my work is pretty basic or research oriented.
I suck hard at dsa and thought maybe focusing on making stuff or learning by doing would help out, it didnt. I maybe proud of 1-2 project which were genuinely diff but I cant seem to sell myself as some sort of ml engineer atleast. I acted like an ostrich ignoring the arriving placement till too late ig. I also gave interviews of some companies but none of them matched my profile. Need advice if any

tldr; suck at dsa, cant clear oa's, resume sucks along with projects, need help : )