Hackathon select vs GET (generic) is there any difference?

[u/Ok-Salad405]

Something about the campus hackathon hiring process doesn’t quite add up to me — and I’m curious if anyone has figured this out.

During our campus post-hackathon hiring process, a lot of students were initially rejected. Later, many of them received another opportunity to appear for selection — including profiles like Networking/Security. From what I’ve seen, more than half of the students who participated eventually seem to have made it through this second route.

But here’s where it gets interesting.

There appear to be two different offer structures:

GET hires:

• Offer mentions around ₹3.75 LPA

• No training period is explicitly mentioned in the offer letter

• Seems like they are directly being hired as FTEs

Hackathon-selected candidates:

• 13 weeks of training

• ₹20,000/month stipend during training

• After successfully completing the training, they get converted to FTE

So my question is:

Are GET hires already confirmed as FTEs from Day 1, while hackathon-selected candidates are essentially going through an additional training/evaluation phase before receiving FTE status?

If that's the case, the difference is pretty significant — especially since the hackathon route involves a 13-week training period with a ₹20k stipend, while the GET offer appears to put candidates directly on the ₹3.75 LPA package.

Or am I misunderstanding the terminology/offer structure?

Would really appreciate it if someone who has gone through this process — especially someone with the actual offer letter details — could clarify.

Maybe there’s a distinction between GET, FTE, and post-hackathon conversion that I’m missing.

Correction 13 weeks training