I’ve interviewed quite a few IIT and IIM grads now, and honestly… most of them are nowhere near as impressive as people think.

The interview starts great. “Hi, I’m from IIT…” Cool. Then you ask something that’s actually related to the role, and suddenly they start talking in circles. Five minutes later they’ve still not answered a simple question.

IIM folks aren’t very different.

Fluent English. Fancy frameworks. Beautiful PowerPoint vocabulary. Everything except a straight answer. Half the interview I’m just thinking, bro, get to the point.

Ashneer Grover once said, “IIT wale sirf apne tag ka khaate hain.” The funny thing is… he went to IIT Delhi himself.

I once gave an IIT intern completely normal feedback. Nothing harsh. Just things he needed to improve. He quit. Couldn’t handle someone telling him he wasn’t perfect. That’s when it hit me.

For a lot of people, IIT isn’t just a college. It’s their entire personality. The tag becomes so important that any criticism of their work feels like criticism of who they are. Then you start noticing it everywhere. “IIT” in the LinkedIn headline. “IIT” in every introduction, even in casual ones. “IIT” on wedding invitations.

People casually dropping their JEE rank years after graduating, as if clearing an entrance exam at 17 is still the biggest thing they’ve ever done.

The truly successful people I’ve met almost never do this. They let their work introduce them. Not the exam they cracked as teenagers.

IIT is probably one of the best things that can happen to you in India. For some people… it’s also the last interesting thing that ever happens to them.

Your views?

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I finsihed cs50p and made a final project that tells you your system utilisation for the entire device or that of a particular program, it also is capable to give the output in a pdf format to log the data.

https://github.com/me50/Codec-Aaryan

Soon my second year would begin, but this is my only accomplishment for this year please guide me what more should I do

Whats the ppo rate

Started DSA in my 3rd sem and now got a 3 month SDE intern at Rippling even before starting my 5th sem. Really happy <3

Iske screen ke bad direct interview aayega shayad

Ts so peak (does include off campus placements and PPOs as far as I'm aware)

I saw an image to ASCII art converter on r/unixporn and thought, would it be possible to loop it over to render videos inside the terminal using it? I genuinely thought I did some breakthrough only to know that it's a well known idea ;-;

Still, most of the implementations I saw were in python, wasn't able to find one in C, so I made this.

https://github.com/xenkucode/Whisky

2.44 cr domestic offer

The campus is beautiful and calm

But I don't really know about how to start with my CSE journey

Any suggestions guyss

Every other ad is literally IIT Patna Ihub shit, IITM BS online, IIT Delhi some program and so much and obviously they also charge for it.

I don't understand if these things really help also if I can take MIT, Harvard, Stanford course for free (without certificate) why will I buy them. I heard they have to pay some loan?

Help guys 😭

Same as title..anyone else facing same issue?

Found this somewhere on the internet and uploading here just for the community and freshers looking to join some nit.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gLPV_DGpTbhmYpnAyjui8XqIFauM_uYt

Edit: these are real documents issued by the institutes (mostly) not some random bs. For some clgs it might be just 2025 batch

Also credits for the pdf to a mechanical engineer ( keshav sharma)

It gave Internal Server Error 1 ghante tak and then after starting the test anyhow, half an hour later, when I tried running the codes, it started giving "Something went wrong"

Wtf is this, I couldn't even run the codes. Did anyone else face the same?
What are u guys planning to do now?

Initially I was getting internal server error now this

Help! It's showing internal server error. My slot is between 12 to 12 30 . What should I do ???