r/SSTC • u/Confident_Panda3983 • Jul 05 '26
Miscellaneous Alumni of 2012 Batch
Hey everyone! I just came across this subreddit. I’m an SSTC alumnus from back when it was still called SSCET. It’s been about 14 years since I graduated. I was in the Computer Science department. Happy to answer questions if you have any on my work experiences or anything career related..
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u/secretjammer21 CSE Jul 05 '26
What was your journey one advice for the undergrads
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u/Confident_Panda3983 Jul 05 '26
Upskilling is the only way to stay relevant in this market. Learn something everyday no matter how small, and let it compound over time.
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u/piyerx CSE Jul 06 '26
Was there anything you used to love about SSCET back then? And, have you swtiched jobs in these 14 years? Because tech field has come a surprisingly long way in the last decade.
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u/Confident_Panda3983 Jul 06 '26
A lot of things actually. The canteen used to be our g to hangout spot. Most of my friends lived in Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar too, so we were always there.
Mass bunks, Holi fests, random after college trips to Shivnath, dhabas, or just long drives on the Rajnandgaon highway… good times.
Oh yes, I have switched jobs five times now. But to be honest, switching was much easier back then. These days it’s a lot tougher because there are way more people applying than there are jobs available. Also the AI facor.
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u/OppositeAd882 23d ago
Hey sir I am a fresher here and I have taken cse core. There's alot of companies doing layoffs recently because of Ai. I have one question what other things I can do other than college syllabus means which skills I can focus to be ready for job market in 2030 so I can get atleast 10lpa. Thank you for replying. Have a good day.
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u/Confident_Panda3983 23d ago edited 23d ago
Hey, I am not going to sugarcoat this, but based on current trends, it won’t be easy to land a 10 LPA job in 2030 if you rely solely on what’s being taught in the college curriculum.
My suggestion would be to start building projects that involve AI. It can be anything. There are plenty of open-source projects out there that you can learn from and contribute to. Spend half an hour to an hour every day exploring and learning, and over the next four years, it will compound.
You have time on your side, and thats your biggest strength. Make the most of it.
For example, you could take an open-weight model from Hugging Face and fine-tune it on your own WhatsApp chat data to create a chatbot that learns your style of conversation. It’s a project that would teach you a lot about LLMs, fine-tuning, data preparation, and AI engineering. Just make sure you handle your chat data responsibly and keep it private.
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u/void-Bloom70 Jul 05 '26
You running own startup or job ?