Using Tier-3 as excuse to grow

Without giving out too much info, I'm a tier 3 student but I'm in a program funded by one of the MAANGs in which there are other sophomores from tier-1 colleges. Keeping various bonus and side effects of such a competition aside, I really wanted to have a career in cybersecurity...but, seems like I am not made for it(tried for 1.5 years :/) I am starting out in cloud now, I'm working towards my first AWS certification. Question: Somehow I still feel not guided enough, my peers from that program get many on-campus opportunity, while i just get a referral to one of the MAANGs that fund it. I feel like i should really first focus on my DSA more than even cloud. What should I spend my second year on, DSA - to get internship, or cloud/open source?

I have been working as an APM at a series C startup for the last 1 year. I did my MBA from a tier 1 college. Worked as a full stack developer for 2 years before that. Am I underpaid? What would be a fair market compensation. Should I try getting another PM job in a different company or switch back to being a dev. ( Not liking PM that much, the dev role was a better experience.)

Looking for genuine and non diplomatic answers since it will be anonymous. It is upto you to reveal the name of the company you resigned from. Lets discuss!!! I will go first - I quit my last organisation (a famous UPI company) in 2020 because, they still are in old technology. No cloud computing, no kubernates, no terraform. Their entire baremetal infra are in 2 DCs (Mumbai and Bangalore). Leadership ideas are outdated. I was very much bored and looking for a change.

It's high time for Big tech companies to open their branches in Tier-II cities actively, seeing the situation of major Tier-I cities. Infosys, Zoho are doing well in this path. 1. Decongestion of population 2. Reduced pollution. 3. Controlled cost of living 4. Development of small cities, so much migration of people. What's your opinion?

I heard from someone in the industry that Stoa laid off most of the people and only 7 of them are still there, including 4 of their co founders. The Main reason was that they were not able to provide placements to the members and their experience had turn to shit . What is happening with ed tech , also the sauce is that now they are pivoting into self paced courses following the coursera model. Alternative MBA nahi chal payega India .

To all the Entrepreneurial minds here. If given enough money and resources and time what problem will you solve? I’ll go first. If I had enough, I would solve air pollution. I think its a massive massive problem in urban India and will severely affect us in the long run What will you solve?

Being someone who gets bored easily, I don't have that urge, or lets say am reluctant to start work everyday (analytics - not a fresher). Keeping switching aside, what's something I could do to find ownership? If not for turning this to something extremely interesting, least I wouldn't want to go through this every morning. I understand there's many out there doing it just for the money. Apne koi turning points he tho share kardo yaar, kuch try kar lete hein. It's Monday tomorrow :(

Is office shifting to tier 2 cities only beacuse the commercial rents are high in Tier 1 cities or it has some other agenda behind it? Nowadays many people are comfortable to work from there home location. It saves cost. Is this also the reason for companies shifting its focus to tier 2 cities? Any inputs would help!

My brother has just completed 7th semester in CS from a tier 3 college. He has good aptitude and problem solving skills. He is not very passionate about anything.he just wants to learn something in demand and earn well. He just knows the basics taught as per curriculum. What is the best way for him to choose proper career path ( front end, back end, full stack etc) and learn stuff and crack good package roles. Pls share any proper roadmap blogs or YouTube channels that can help him. Thanks in advance!