He'll be PIPed soon after they suck him dry, dont worry

Cybersecurity

Engineering Manager

If I had money to throw, I would probably do something like this because high CGPA either means they were dedicated enough to study or smart enough to cheat.  
  
 Plus, the survivor bias will probably kick in when they see their peers struggle through interviews. This might make them perform better because they’ll believe “luck” got them the job.  
  
 At the end of the day, if you can’t perform, you will be PIP’d. No metric of evaluation today guarantees a good hire.

Software Engineer

Saw people getting Internships based on their CGPA, No online assessment, No coding rounds, No interviews.

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Internship based on CGPA, No interviews

Internship based on CGPA, No interviews- Grapevine

Just got to know recently that a tier 1 mba college didn’t conduct interviews as part of their admission process during covid. Just CAT scores sufficed. 

In addition to this, post admission, these batches didn’t have proctored exams, they could collaborate and solve the exams together and then submit their answers online. 

Please do reply if this was very common during Covid across other colleges and any other such crazy lapses across colleges.

Dark secrets about premier colleges

In another college, there is no resume vetting and people can and do add a lot of BS "achievements". 
 This is also the college with the largest intake and almost every second person has something like a director's merit list or an honors' list or they are a 'torchbearer'.

Strategy & Operations

Product Manager

Currently in 3rd year of B.Tech Electrical engineering from tier-1 college. I didn't get any internship as only 2 companies came for interns that too took only 6 people( 1 - nvidia and 5 - Texas). I tried applying on LinkedIn and Indeed  and cold mailing HRs but I am not getting any return mails from any HR. I have applied to the summer internship program of IITs but I think I don't have a chance as my CGPA is low compared to others(8.42/10). What do I do to get an intern?

Not getting any Internships

Be it SDE, SRE, Data Scientist or any other role never intern at PhonePe worst place to work at, the conversion rate is lowest as compared to other. Conversion is rarely done based on skills. I have heard from other department interns that they were not even assigned a project to work on and were removed.

Interning at PhonePe felt like being in a school with strict teachers and zero respect for people.

Never intern at PhonePe

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What weightage is given to your cgpa during recruitment and if someone has less CGPA, how can he cover it

CGPA and Hiring

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TLDR;

Had a data science intern join our team. His resume was really impressive, good academic record, had a couple of research internship (NUS, IIT), 4 papers in  journals etc. His interview was just okay, but we probably got biased by his resume which looked stellar.
This guy didn’t know very basic python programming. We gave him basic task of converting a image dataset from one format to another(very first step of developing ML model). Took a week, constantly badgered all the team members, would just randomly copy code from ChatGPT, and if it won’t work, would ask us to solve it for him. Didn’t figure it out in a week, and at the end of week, we arranged a meeting with him about the update of work. Turns out, he didn’t even understand the task clearly. But we didn’t mind him, as it was his first week and we cut him some slack. The next week, I understood that he struggled in programming so gave him very basic task. He just had to figure out a command line program. Took two days, gave the result without any documentation, and the very next day he asked whether he would get the credit of his work and that it would account for his decision to full time conversion. 
Then he started taking a leave, EVERY WEEK. We used to have scrum call at 10AM, this guy wakes up at 10:30AM, and tells that he slept late and would come to office by 11AM( we had work from office policy), and he would come around 11:30AM. Would slack at work the entire day, give him some basic task, would keep asking silly doubts, copy paste code from ChatGPT and ask us to solve the bugs. Come to office without taking bath, no professionalism at all. One day I scolded him a lot, to come at time, learn some professionalism( if he doesn’t have good skills, atleast a humble attitude and professionalism should be there), but dude had no effect, comes at 12PM the very next day, missing the scrum call again. Was scolded many times, but didn’t have effect on him. 50k/per month stipend, completely wasted.

Tell story of the worst intern that you had

Very recent one

He was like Hansa (remember the Khichdi show). He did one thing at one time and takes min two weeks for each. He was with us for 4 months- none of his tasks are complete. He will do no-brainer work well; bring paper, pen, and coffee.

We had Hybrid mode with no restrictions. Initially he would just take leaves and not inform. When scolded, he would message random stuff and say he will work from home. What are you working on?!

When he was in office, he would never be in his seat. Constantly call him where are you? I'm at the canteen, I am having coffee, I was out to lunch, I will not be able to do this because someone else asked me to print a paper (stupid reasons)

End of tenure, he comes to me with some marks sheet. and asks for PPO. 
I look him dead in the eyes and say you know you haven't worked in 4 months, I cannot recommend. You can speak with my boss if you like.

Obviously he didn’t get PPO, called me again after a week, asking to look into it.

P.S. I gave him full marks because no point fucking up his career. He is capable of it himself.

P.S.S. I had interviewed him and felt such a failure to have hired someone like him.

Consultant

Machine Learning Engineer

I am a computer engineering student from a tier 3 college in Pune. Now that I am in the last couple of months of my 6th semester multiple companies have come to our campus but I haven't gotten an internship. How do i search for internships off campus?
Are there any tips from some experienced people like what do companies look at when giving out internships. Since last month I started applying off campus using linkedin and other websites but I am not getting any callbacks for interviews or even online tests.
Previously I haven't done any internships but have done projects which I have out on my resume.

Please forgive me if the format of this post is wrong, vague or broad. I am writing a grapevine post for the first time.

How to search for software internships

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There is this one company which came to our campus offering 10.5L CTC and literally selected 251 students at a time when even our college (tier 1) is struggling to place even 50% students and maximum hiring per company is around 10. 

When you read this company's reviews online, the reviews are like they don't pay stipend for months and ask you to sell courses irrespective of if you are a developer. In fact, they ask for money from interns for 'charity' work. 

And the best part is, everyone who gave the test got selected, without any interviews. 

I think that college knows the reality but they still allow this so that the placements stats improve (adding 250+ students at a CTC of 10L really improves the placed percentage and the average package)

Fraud companies boosting placement stats

I'm currently a final year student at tier-1 clg in Bangaluru. 
I have been placed at a company which offers 15 base pay,  no stocks, 19.63ctc, I had 8 GPA when I gave the interview. This sem(7th) is completely fu**d up results to a cumulative GPA of 7.2 already, it can max utmost to 7.4 by the end of the degree if it does :(.

I'm considering to change my current company after 1/2 years, will my cgpa pose any bad affect on it?

Does CGPA matter after 1/2 yoe? (Not a stupid Q)

Analyst

I am a BCA last year student, I am trying to get any job or internship as a web developer position(frontend or backend,  bcz I am full stack developer). Any salary amount is accepted bcz I just want to start this career.

(Only work from home if the salary is low )

I have some Advance level projects ,it is good but not great.

I know basic DSA (using Java) not advance level.

How to get job or internship in BCA?

How to get internship in BCA?

As the title says, feeling really devastated and less of hope for life. Feeling like I have been useless since all of time. And I can't say where I am wrong.

I have learnt Java and Backend development
Even learnt the knowledge of basic LLD too
Leetcode is still regular
Suggestions to apply on further job portals like Naukri, Instahyre, Wellfound etc I followed
Current company where I'm interning has given the signs that I won't be given PPO most likely even though I was very productive. 
I have projects which have been remarked as good by others of different designations
Resume is single column ATS friendly
I come from a Tier 2 institute

On campus is a dead ground now. Earlier it was GPA cuts, 12th board, gender cuts etc. 
For Off campus, which are very less to begin with, even after giving OAs completely, I'm still get ghosted.
Talked with a few founders and connections, they are either looking for seniors, not freshers or just hiring interns. 

What should I do?

Feeling Devastated. Fresher with no PPO and graduating this month

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I want to know on what basis are you guys shorting your candidates for college summer interns, because I see the most random person getting selected and leaving out the good ones
Also it's a no hope game for me, mine cgpa is less than 7

Can any hiring committee person give some insights

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A month ago, a well-known company visited one of my friend's universities for an on-campus placement drive. They set the eligibility criteria very high to filter out students. However, they conducted all 3-4 rounds online, and as tech students, we all know how easy it is to find ways to cheat in such situations. Consequently, some undeserving students got placed. Believe me, they are students who don't even know basic fundamentals and programming syntax properly.

Online Placements: More About Risk or Luck?

many of my male batchmates with similar coding skills got internship opportunity at top companies like Google, Sprinkler, GS, etc. And i wasn't able to crack even the coding round. later I got to know about everyone was involved in cheating during online coding test forming groups and giving it together. what should I do now, should i consider taking any small internship at some random startup for the sake of filling the experience section of my resume? I will be having placement season after 6 months around september. someone guide me what should i focus more these many days. I am from tier 1 college and around 1500 rated on codeforces and done some good projects in mobile developement.

internship/ placement dilemma 😔

I am an engineering student from tier 1 clg, with very low cgpa. My chances of getting those high paying jobs is very low as I don't code and the only options left for me is analyst and pm. 
Please suggest me how should I prepare for off campus placements/ internship as I have no idea that how are they different from on campus placements

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