I would never recommend anyone to get into JEE rat race. Reasons : you can get lost and disillusioned and waste lot of time.    
 I would suggest everyone to really think what their real interests are . Explore careers, meet different people. And pursue what really makes you come alive and not just blindly follow the crowd.

Software Engineer

If your brother has a lot of interest in maths , he can pursue a career in data science , statistician and even astronomy . Look for a college named ISI , it’s in Kolkata I guess . That’s the best college to pursue statistics . Operation research is a great career option . He can pursue a career in finance may be . And if he likes both maths and physics , he can pursue astronomy 🔭

@ankur239 The thing is that is yet to decide  
 Because as I took mathematics, family mostly wants him to take maths as well ( and i personally think it has better options) and as far as his interest is concerned, he does a lot of bhakti and is a great devotee of Krishna and joined iskcon a year back , he was interested in all these stuff since he was very young like 2-3 years . But will surely take your advice into consideration

Product Manager

This year my younger brother went to class 9th, after two years he will take mathematics but I was thinking that should be spend time preparing for IIT jee in the current scenario where lots of fol...

This year my younger brother went to class 9th, after two years he will take mathematics but I was thinking that should be spend time preparing for IIT jee in the current scenario where lots of folks are competing for the same day and night but still not able to secure their dream seat and even who are getting into core branches are Pivoting to product , sde , data . Are there any unique and most promising career options apart from IIT jee

Best career options for maths students

Best career options for maths students- Grapevine

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Even after so many layoffs, low salary of  engineers , the craze of engineering is not going down.
Every year 10lack students are writing jee , even if half of them will do engineering somehow then where will they get jobs ?
It is just increasing the saturation of the market, which eventually decreases salaries,
And now this AI
God knows when it will come to an end 😮‍💨

Craze of engineering

Analyst

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I am an IIT Btech in Mechanical 2014 graduate age 31 and I started teaching Maths to JEE aspirants right after my graduation. Somehow I wasn't satisfied with it so I went to Canada in 2017 to do a graduate certificate in Computer applications development and did some online courses in Python and joined Micromasters in Data science from MIT which I couldn't finish, and ended up jobless in Canada. In lockdown I came back to India and in 2022 I rejoined the JEE teaching where I think I will be able to do good. Now at the age of almost 32, should I rethink about studying Data science, can I do well in the field of AI/ML if I pick up the courses again? Will I be able to land a good paying job in Delhi NCR, or should I just keep teaching since I'll get good at it in coming years?

Should I switch to Data Science

Education

My nephew has both these options (and IITD/B Mech,etc) to choose from . From the perspective of career growth, which one is better. Consider all factors like prospects in CS, institute brand, etc that help in building a career.

IIT-K Electrical or IIIT-Hyd CS?

Growth Manager

This year arround more than 14 lakhs appeared for Jee  out of these only 17-18 thousand will get IITS and remaining top 30 thousand students will join Nits/IIITs/Bits and state GECs but remaining students will join random engineering,competition is increased pretty much and I'm pretty sure had the half of these 14 lakhs student be from well off families, they would look for options abroad, competition is getting extremely unhealthy nowadays bczz even students who are gonna get chemical , mechanical, civil kind of branches in top tier colleges are also gonna target product/analytics/consulting/finance kind of roles or go for MBA via cat at top IIMs/abroad /UPSC /starting up at the end of their engineering which doesn't make any sense to me . It doesn't mean that students who got less percentile are less intelligent but mistakes of 5-8 marks in these exams affect your rank by 1000s . And this thing is gonna worse in near future with ever increasing population of our country

Road to IITs gets tougher

Hello everyone,
I am a Quant intern at a trading firm and Currently pursuing btech in Computer Science from one of the prestigious IIIT ,24 Batch. My 7th sem is going to start from next month. 

I am developing some algo's for market analysts and I think I am not learning any tech stack from this as these algo's are developed using some basic tool provided by the company. There are very less chances of PPO and even the timings are from 11am to 10pm. So due to these timings I don't get any time to prepare for other companies for oncampus placements.

I am writing this post to ask should I leave the company and prepare for on campus placements or continue working here.
As I can continue my intern during the sem coz there is no attandance criteria in my college.

Career Advice

Software Developer

After seeing current placement stats of top IITs, even after Day6 not even 50% of the batch is unplaced can we say that 2024 is the unluckiest batch?

Students with good CGPA, having internships in reputed internships are not getting placed. It's worse for mediocre students.

What are alternativev for these unplaced students?

The unluckiest batch?

Founder

Frontend Engineer

My brother is graduated this year and wants to pursue Computer Science as a career option. He will focus on coding and will want a placement in IT industry. But according to his rank he is expecting to get metallurgy engineering in MNIT Jaipur. He is getting Electronics/ CSE in colleges like Jamia which rank much lower. 

While the college does matter, I want to know the placement opportunities in such NITs for a student from a different branch.

MNIT Jaipur metallurgy engineering

I started working around 2017 never upskilled enough to switch and realised my mistakes very late

Would my past experience be an issue if I get into good colleges like IITs/IISc

By the time I graduate I would be around 33-34 maybe ?
Is it too late to get into GATE.
I also can't afford to go to foreign masters degree. 
I am single so only parents are dependent on me. 

myquals: BE in CS from tier 3 college in Maharashtra. 

Any experienced advice is appreciated.

I am 30 yo with all my working experience in support. Never did any development or coding. Will getting an Mtech from top colleges (iit/iisc) help me get on good career trajectory?

Just want to know career prospects and how it helped in long term from career perspective.

People who did Mtech. Was it worth it ?

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Disclaimer: I have nothing against high earners in this group who are doing exceptionally well and earning big bucks at young age. You have my admiration. 

Target audience of this post: Everyone else who is doing okay in their job, earning an average salary for their age. 

Why have I posted it?: To not feel I am the only one who is a normal regular person doing just average in his life in this hyper competitive rat race. 

My thoughts: I clearly remember the moment, it was April 2007, I had barely completed the board exams of class 10th and joined class 11th. It was my first week into class 11th when a fine looking gentleman walked into our class to make us think of our future career path. He was from a coaching institute for IIT JEE and AIEEE. He told us about all the high salary packages at these premier institutes. I excitedly told my parents about it. 

Like any middle class parents, they dreamt of their son cracking the exam and securing good placements from IITs/NITs. They enrolled me in coaching. I worked hard for those 2 years, 11th and 12th. But what was harder was the constant stress and pressure I was put in, both intentionally and unintentionally. These ideas that 'I must crack JEE to have a good future', 'if you don't get through JEE then you are a waste' etc, were hammered into my mind day in and day out. 

I didn't crack JEE but got into a well reputed private engineering college of India.. Fast forward 4 years, did my MBA from  tier 2 college only to join a service company at salary that would be considered too low for most of the folks here who compare salary like a plague. Recently joined a product company with good jump. Realised all that pressure I was put under in high school wasn't necessary. I am doing ok in life. 

 I think it's okay to be earning an average salary, everyone of us is on his own journey of growth and comparing ourselves on basis of packages seems myopic

Too much gyaan? Getting a perspective on late Saturday night!!!

It's okay to be normal and ordinary

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!

Can tier 3 graduate crack good package roles?

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I am a school passed out student. I want to learn mathematics as I want to make a career out of it (because I love mathematics and want to pursue a higher research level degree). Although at the same time my family is in a financial crisis from over a decade now and I know that the upcoming years are going to be more horrific if money does not gets pumped in! So for that reason I am on a drop since I have passed out (ITS MORE THAN A YEAR NOW) and has been learning trading and stock markets. However, my family keeps pushing me to pursue a career so as to be risk free in future (even if they understand that I am doing these things for them they want me to do things that will make me stand upon my feet) and also their primary sentiment is to drop this idea of markets and all (normal Indian family's behavior). Now since last few days, I have been highly tensed and deeply worried about the carrier I made. I am confused whether to drop the stock market practice and start the entrance preparation or to take things simultaneously. But I dont know the ways by which I can tackle all these stuffs going in my mind!

How can anyone manage things which are most important for life simultaneously?

Am currently in a circuital branch of a nit (graduating in 2025) preparing for tech jobs , not one of those brilliant minds , okayish on leetcode trying to cover major dsa topics and important questions.
But everyday I keep hearing about layoffs, AI, recession, cost cutting etc
Should I do something different, should I keep preparing  for tech jobs or I should shift to core jobs or GATE, really confused !!

Placement dilemma, recession,job cuts , suggestions ??

Hi,

I have been working in the Software Industry for the past 9 years. I feel like I have made a good use of my time and money and maybe some of my lessons can help you folks as well. Recently did a calculation for my NW and I am happy and proud to see my NW crossing 2CR+. I have 0 debt and do not own a house. Here is how my portfolio look like

TC: 1.3 Cr
YOE: 9

I am happy to do an AMA. Ask me anything about tech, career, love, marriage, money management, therapy, songs and movies.
#Ask Me Anything #ama #amazon #atlassian #google #startups #bengaluru #networth #money management #finance #india

Sorry if delay in responses, I'll answer all your questions eventually.

[AMA] 9 years in Software Engineering in India. NW 2.5Cr

I see a lot of similar questions and I'll try to answer them here.

>>>>>>CTC Progression<<<<

My current CTC is 1.3CR . 50% is cash, 50% is stocks.

Here is my CTC progression over the years

1st - 12L
2nd - 12L (Switched Companies)
3rd - 15L 
4th - 24L (Switched companies)
5th - 42L (Switched Companies)
6th - 48L
7th - 66L
8th - 72L
9th - 1.3Cr (Switched Companies)

As you can see I almost everytimg doubled my compensation when I switched my companies. But there are reasons to stay at a company as well. If you are learning and are able to handle different problems at scale, stay. When you feel stuck, leave and look for better opportunities. I have never switched job to get more money. I love CS. I have been coding since 15 years. What made me switch was either bad managers, uninteresting problems not visibility of learning and growth.

Is this happening because of all bhaiya and didi’s of youtube? IIT’s are not only for getting jobs.

Why this decline?

Because many of the top rankers now go to abroad for undergrad.

Corporate Strategist

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My current salary is 42LPA. I am from IIT, have 7 years of experience and work in product. Honestly, my value in the market is higher than what I’m being paid but I am very demotivated to optimise for that. When I do see less deserving people minting more money, I feel that I am doing injustice to myself and playing the wrong hand.

More and more though, the thought of earning more money chokes me a bit. I have dreams of building something of my own - that gives me control to build something my way and freedom to live my life as per my terms. But the mindset of “zyada paisa pareshaani hai” doesn’t leave me.

My family also is not dependent on me and whatever is needed from my side, I actively contribute to. I also lack any motivation to focus on my investments and see my money grow. I just have money sitting around in my bank account purely for nothing

I also look at my lifestyle choices from time to time and go into existential debate of why we need the things that we do. This has come to a point where I really do not understand my relationship with money and why we earn and spend it. 

For me at this point, it’s just a show for the world. There’s very little that you need, and really no limit to what you want to show. And I just don’t see a point in it anymore.

I am demotivated to work to earn more money

Hey @Hungryninja  
 Extremely relatable and very beautiful write up 
  
 I get the trouble you face. When you’ve almost figured out what you like and what you don’t like (that money isn’t thaaat needle moving, I have basic needs) but at the same time, the opportunity cost of relaxing is too high - everybody from your batch will remind you of how far you can go, and the middle class boy in you will find it difficult to stomach letting go of all the money, even though you can make it  
  
 Went through this at one point. I have ultimately sided with money. I cannot sit back and relax. Money will only unlock a lot of foreign travel and good lifestyle for me. But more than that, I am lucky to be in a position that allows me to earn money easier than other people do. So I’ll make it, help extended family and people who cannot earn as easily, because at least in a country like India, it’s almost a responsibility. We’re not fucking Europe. 
  
 I’ll just not kill myself for it as much as I used to :)

Investment Associate

Product Owner

Can anyone help me out with choosing course, i just finished my 12th few months back and want to pursue a career in computer/tech field because i am interested in programming computing and all that, but the thing is i dont want to do Btech mtech etc

Bsc + Msc in comp sci / Data science
Or
BCA and then MCA in an NIT thru NIMCET

These are 2 options that are in my mind, or Bsc and then MCA is another option, idk what to do further on and i am confused a lot

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