How do many students get good grades and simultaneously work on side projects/ skills

Status: 1.7 yoe | Passout from Tier 3 Position: SDE1 at a product based company (Java Backend) CTC: 5.2 lpa I resigned from there in April because of personal health reasons plus the work environment and the pay did not suit me well. I was confident to find a better pay as compared to how/the amount of work I got done there in comparison to my peers but unfortunately I feel lost now. From last two months I am focussing on my DSA concepts, and now feel a bit confident to start interviewing again. One of my concern is will this type of career break impact seriously or is that acceptable to companies. Secondly, sometimes I also get confused on should I focus on the core subjects again thoroghly or just grind leetcode properly first and then maybe a week or so on OS, DBMS, OOPS, Java, Spring Boot (based on my last project at work). Kindly give some assistance on time partitioning since I am getting overwhelmed in order to get myself "fully prepared". Also pls help me with referrals, if any.

I am a final-year CS student and will be graduating this June. I have been doing internships since 6th semester. In my first and second year I used to code like 9 to 10 hours a day and learn new skills and thanks to that I was able to grep an internship in start of 6th sem and since then I am doing internships and its been 1.5 years and I have done 2 internships, one as an backend developer for 6 months and another as an ML Engineer for 10 months and I am still interning over here and I have learned a lot and have worked on many amazing projects, now the problem is my current company told that they will give me full time offer if they receive the funding in April or may and HR told me to consider this as no and now the CEO of my previous internship called me and asked me if I am willing to join there for full time and I told him I am waiting for the offer from here and he told me that he will try to match the offer but I don't want to join the older company as there the culture is toxic and I also don't have other offer to negotiate as I did not sit for on campus placement as I am getting paid more as an intern(50k per month) then the full time offers the companies are giving on campus. Now in 2 months, I will be graduating and still, I don't have full-time offer now I feel like all the sacrifices I made in my first and second years went in vain, all the hard work, consistency, missing parties and trips all these things now makes me depressed, where did I go wrong and what should I do now?

I am a final year CS student and will be graduating this June. In my first and second year I used to code like 9 to 10 hours a day and learn new skills and thanks to that I was able to grep an internship in start of 6th sem and since then I am doing internships and its been 1.5 years and I have done 2 internships, one as an backend developer for 6 months and another as an ML Engineer for 10 months and I am still interning over here and I have learned a lot and have worked on many amazing projects, now the problem is my current company told that they will give me full time offer if they receive the funding in April or may and HR told me to consider this as no and now the CEO of my previous internship called me and asked me if I am willing to join there for full time and I told him I am waiting for the offer from here and he told me that he will try to match the offer but I don't want to join the older company as there the culture is toxic and I also don't have other offer to negotiate as I did not sit for on campus placement as I am getting paid more as an intern(50k per month) then the full time offers the companies are giving on campus. Now in 2 months I will be graduating and still I don't have full time offer and now I feel like all the sacrifices I made in my first and second year went in vain, all the hard work, consistency, missing parties and trips all these things now makes me sad, where did I went wrong and what should I do now?

I am an 2nd year engineering student and what to know how many internships are good to have before I start applying for full time role in 4th year, when I see on LinkedIn, people in 2nd year have done 3-4 internships already and have put crazy numbers about their internships and other different campaigns , community work etc.. Here I am still learning new skills. I am feeling like I am falling behind compared to them. I am interested in VC ,Fintechs, growth, business. startups.

I'm a final year student at a tier-1 engineering college. I am looking to break into product management and have been looking for internships and full time opportunities for the last 5 months. I've had no luck so far, and my campus placements are not up to the mark this year so no luck there as well. I've done all the essentials for preparing for this role, like preparing for interviews, participating in product teardowns, working on a portfolio etc. I initially planned to work for a few years and do an MBA in the US but I'm seriously contemplating going for a master's degree now (maybe MiM in EU or some MS in software applications in the US). Looking for advice on what should be my next steps. PS: I'm not looking to do an MBA in India. If I go for a master's degree, I want to do it abroad.

As the title says, because I don't get time for that. I only study on weekends. I have heard many people upskill with their jobs. How do you guys do it? What am I missing?

- Indian tech market size reached $254 billion in FY24, growing 3.8% YoY - Mere 2.5% of Indian engineers possess AI skills, 5.5% qualified in basic programming - 86% of Indian businesses actively reskilling IT workers to meet skills gap - AI/ML engineer salaries range from Rs. 8.2 LPA to Rs. 43 LPA in GCCs - Data engineering, product management, and DevOps roles see 10-12% salary growth Source: [Business Today](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/only-55-of-the-indian-engineers-are-qualified-with-basic-programming-skills-report-443227-2024-08-27)

I want to understand if you are also satisfied with your compensation?

I am a final year mechanical engineering student who wants to get into product management, i have two internships and one certification but that's a different story as most of the people having better interships and skills are struggling to land an offer , i would be graduating in June 2024 and before that I want to land at decent product role at entry level , i have 6 months left what should I do , how can I stand out being a tier 3 college student with mechanical engineering background, i am learning and following product management since past 1.5 years

I'm a student and overwhelmed by the number of technologies available in the market, and alot of them intrigue my interest. And I'm learning maybe a lot of things. Which ends up increasing my load which results in inconsistent work. I tried prioritising but the college work plus the need for internship ends up in me trying to do everything all the time. Can someone give me some advice as to how to get my things in control